Greetings Mr. Gary Benson and Yözen Hernández,
I'm in the process of giving a hand to the Debian Med Team with
maintaining several applications for the Debian project. In the
context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the need for easing access to
applications related to the medical field, notably virology, has
become dire, and there is a list of projects that has been
established by the Debian Med Team which is considered a
priority work, see:
https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/COVID-19-Hackathon-packages-needing-work
So in this context, I've begun packaging VirusSeeker, initially
written in the Washington University in St. Louis, and this
program makes use of RepeatMasker for one of its processing
steps. This program, in turn, depends on Tandem Repeats Finder.
However, the current licensing terms are making TRF incompatible
with integration into the main Debian repository, thus render
RepeatMasker and VirusSeeker both ineligible to it as well.
I was wondering if it were possible to open the source code of
TRF, and choose licensing terms that would be compatible with an
integration into Debian main repository, for instance by using
the GPL-3 or the MIT license, or whichever terms suits your
taste among the ones considered DFSG compatible:
https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#DFSG-compatible_Licenses
In hope your licensing change will help us all moving forward,
Kind Regards,
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Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org>
for the Debian Med Team <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
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