Hi again,
every release cycle I try again to free some software that is used but
due to a non-free license not included in official Debian. As far as I
can see the official homepage of MSSStest was not restored since I wrote
you last time. Most of the first web search hits are pointing to Debian
or some derivatives. I wonder whether you might consider a free license
after so many years.
Thanks a lot for considering
Andreas.
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 08:36:58AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Dear Richard,
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 02:23:31PM +1300, Richard and Emma Roxburgh wrote:
> > Dear Andreas
> >
> > I'm flattered that Debian is approaching me again about this 10 years later.
>
> ... and again. :-)
>
> > The program is used widely and freely by anyone who wants to - hundreds of
> > citations to date is strong evidence of this.
>
> I noticed that the homepage
>
> https://www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/MSgenetics/GAMES/MSSS
>
> is not available (the host www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk does not seem to be
> online.
>
> > I do not see that there is a problem that needs fixing
> >
> > So I do not intend to change the way that MSSS test is available
>
> I would welcome if MSSS test would be put under a free license anyway -
> since than Debian could include it into the official distribution and
> it would become more visible to users. In case the issue with the
> homepage is not temporarily that could be some advantage.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
> > Richard
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andreas Tille [mailto:andreas@an3as.eu]
> > Sent: Monday, 11 January 2016 8:43 p.m.
> > To: Richard Roxburgh; Debian Med Project List
> > Subject: Please enable free redistribution of Multiple Sclerosis Severity
> > Score
> >
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team a group inside Debian that
> > has the objective to make Debian the best distribution for medicine and
> > biology by packaging according software for main Debian. Following this
> > attitude we have created Debian packages of mssstest[1].
> >
> > The thing is that the licensing statement says:
> >
> > Anyone may copy it but no one may sell it.
> >
> > which is a restriction that is regarded as non-free according to the Debian
> > Free Software Guidelines. So mssstest was never part of the official Debian
> > distribution.
> >
> > We would like you to reconsider the restriction under the following
> > considerations:
> >
> > - Did you earned a mentionable amount of money by selling mssstest
> > yourself?
> > - Do you consider that anybody else would earn a mentionable amount
> > of money by selling a freely licensed program?
> > - Would you agree that it is in the interest of mssstest code and
> > the users to have a free distribution inside Debian?
> >
> > It would be great if you would simply drop the restriction and enable us to
> > integrate mssstest into Debian properly.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> >
> > [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mssstest
> >
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