Re: License change for non-free files in fasta3
Hi Bill,
that's really good news! Thanks a lot, Andreas.
On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 09:07:41PM +0000, Pearson, William R (wrp) wrote:
> I just checked with Sean Eddy, and he said I have permission to change the license, which I will do this week and commit an updated release with the open source license.
> I will let you know when that’s done.
>
> Bill
>
> > On Feb 8, 2020, at 2:13 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> >
> > 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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