Sorry to pop in. I think this license should be reviewed, unless sure it is not a free license. To me it looks like a free software license. Although not understand most. What is making this license non-free? On 27-04-20 17:06, Jun Aruga wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:43 PM Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> this brings up again my point: We *really*, *really* should take the >> chance right now to ask upstreams for free licensing. The time is good. >> We just need somebody who is really doing this. > For us, the free licensing is good. But for the company nanopore > technologies it is their core competency. > I am not sure we can make it happen, but it might be worth trying to ask. > >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 04:21:12PM +0200, Michael Crusoe wrote: >>> Extracting the linked deb, one finds a binary and a very restrictive >>> license. I do not believe that guppy source code is available nor it is >>> likely to become available any time soon. >>> >>> While some of their other basecallers have source code available, I would >>> not call the license OSS: >>> https://github.com/nanoporetech/flappie/blob/master/LICENCE.txt > I found guppy client software that might be an alternative to use > guppy's function. > https://github.com/nanoporetech/pyguppyclient > > As Michael mentioned, checking other basecallers for nanopore, then > communicating the nf-core/nanoseq project using the alternative base > caller optionally. > > I found an interesting document about the basecallers. > https://github.com/rrwick/Basecalling-comparison > > Performance of neural network basecalling tools for Oxford Nanopore sequencing > https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-019-1727-y > >> In this study, we tested four basecalling programs developed by ONT – Albacore, Guppy, Scrappie and Flappie >> ... >> We also tested Chiron (https://github.com/haotianteng/Chiron), a third-party basecaller still under development that uses a deeper neural network than ONT’s basecallers [3]. > The third party basecaller Chiron's license is Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. > https://github.com/haotianteng/Chiron/blob/master/LICENSE.md >
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