Re: License change for non-free files in fasta3
Hi Bill,
thanks a lot for your fast and helpful reaction.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 07:25:07PM +0000, Pearson, William R (wrp) wrote:
> I have put a new distribution of the fasta package, but with the same release -- fasta-36.3.8h -- to my public servers and to the fasta36 github: https://github.com/wrpearson/fasta36
>
> The github.com/wrpearson/fasta36 should be considered the best place to download sources from.
I can confirm that we really love to download sources from Github as
prefered place. Releases are usually marked by a tag which
automatically puts them on the release page:
https://github.com/wrpearson/fasta36/releases
Since this page was usually lagging behind your public server[1] we used
this as the download location (which we consider only the second best
solution after Github). I cloned Github anyway and have not seen any
change in master branch. The change you are mentioning are in branch
v36.3.8. Besides the licence change I've also found some other fixes:
/tmp/fasta36(v36.3.8) $ git log
commit 4dec820c25b9250b3500f43b89cec690d736014a (HEAD -> v36.3.8, origin/v36.3.8, origin/HEAD)
Author: William R Pearson <wrp@virginia.edu>
Date: Mon Feb 10 14:14:01 2020 -0500
update README.md to indicate change to open source for all code
commit 2193bba84772b06a693225ddbae7122cc339220e
Author: William R Pearson <wrp@virginia.edu>
Date: Mon Feb 10 10:39:54 2020 -0500
update documentation to highlight open source .sse2 license
commit 063f5f1518816344c9dfdfd53799696018311559
Author: William R Pearson <wrp@virginia.edu>
Date: Mon Feb 10 10:14:35 2020 -0500
Add COPYRIGHT.sse2 for Farrar .sse2 code
commit 8e24a324d23786818b3f783fee44921a0ca72abc
Author: William R Pearson <wrp@virginia.edu>
Date: Mon Feb 10 09:24:37 2020 -0500
correct bitwise-and syntax error in mshowbest.c
I verified the previous download we have packaged for Debian from your
server[2] with what I've found there now. There are several other
changes (like Python3 fixes or so). IMHO its not a good idea to hide
these changes from other users (than we as Debian) by simply keeping the
very same version number on your server.
That's why I would recommend choosing a new version number. Moreover
please use tags at Github which would enable us way more comfortably
downloading the latest source. You could even add your release notes
the according tags and stop maintaining your additional server since all
this could be provided by Github and would safe you some manual work
(provided you tag also your historic releases).
Hope this helps and thanks again for fixing the license
Andreas.
[1] https://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/fasta3/
[2] https://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/fasta3/fasta-36.3.8h.tar.gz
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