On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 19:04 +1100, Silvio Cesare wrote: > Hi. I think I'll be able to spend March working on it. I will rewrite > parts of and clean up the code and get it ready for packaging. Great! > The system uses a closed source tool called CFinder > (http://www.cfinder.org/) to perform clique detection. The license of > that software is: ... > Is this license ok? If not, it is possible that I could find other > software to replace it. However, I would have to do more investigation > to see what else is available. It is possible to not use it at all, > but it means some useful features would not be available in the final > system. That license is definitely non-free and is not yet available in Debian. I think that we would not accept using it in Debian infrastructure. What features would we miss out on if CFinder were unavailable? Have you tried asking the CFinder copyright holders to re-license it under a standard Free Software license like the GNU GPL, BSD or MIT licenses? I wonder if qiime could be a replacement: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/qiime If not, perhaps a standard stats/maths package could help? Or maybe the Debian science team could help you find something useful: http://wiki.debian.org/Science -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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