Re: Tandem Repeats Finder License Terms
Hi again Gary,
I do not want to sound impatient. I'm just drafting my talk for
MiniDebConf online which I will hold tomorrow. I would like to report
about success of our sprint. I would love to point to a repository with
freely licensed Tandem Repeats Finder if it exists. So just not missing
some important outcome of our sprint.
So is there any progress from your side or should we keep on waiting
patiently?
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 01:26:08PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Dear Gary,
>
> This is amazing! Thank you so much for your decision!
> Yes please, let us know once the source code is available, so
> the packaging of Tandem Repeats Finder can start.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org>
> for the Debian Med Team <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
>
> Gary Benson, on 2020-05-09 16:32:03 -0400:
> > Dear Étienne,
> >
> > I'm making TRF open source with an AGPL license. Hopefully this
> > will be completed in a week or two.
> >
> > I'll send a link to the github repository when it's ready.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Gary Benson
> >
> > On 5/8/20 1:18 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> > > 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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