Re: License change for non-free files in fasta3
Hi again,
I'm coming back to Alex's question. We would really like to provide
fasta3 as Debian package. Unfortunately the license restriction
mentioned below is not permitting this. Would you consider to adapt
the license in your source code?
Thanks a lot
Andreas.
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:12:20AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med project which tries to
> assemble free software in life sciences into Debian to support this
> field of endeavour as best as possible. (Here you can find a list of the
> packaged software[0].) Fasta3 uses files licensed under a non-free
> academic-only license:
> src/global_sse2.c
> src/global_sse2.h
> src/glocal_sse2.c
> src/glocal_sse2.h
> src/smith_waterman_sse2.c
> and thus according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines[1] which are
> widely accepted as Open Source definition, fasta3 is considered non-free
> even if other components are licensed under an open source license.
> However recently I stumbled upon the article[2] and according this
> article the license of Michael Farrar’s striped SIMD Smith/Waterman has
> been changed to BSD open source license.
> Could you please take this change into consideration and update the
> license of the files mentioned above ? This will make fasta3 completely
> free software.
>
> Thank you,
> Alex
>
> [0] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
> [1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> [2]
> https://cryptogenomicon.org/2019/03/11/farrars-striped-simd-smith-waterman/
>
>
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