Re: Help for asking upstreams about free licenses urgently needed (Was: Help: Seeking source code of guppy base caller)
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 06:39:44PM +0200, Ben Tris wrote:
> Sorry to pop in.
> I think this license should be reviewed,
What exact license are you talking about. I'm missing a link
to guppy source code including any license.
> unless sure it is not a free license.
> To me it looks like a free software license.
Which one are you talking about?
Kind regards
Andreas.
> 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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