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Bug#283695: ITP: mssstest -- Normalisation of EDSS disease score of patients with Multiple Sclerosis



hi steffen,

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:31:33PM +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> Suppose one is interested in determining whether the genotype at some
<snip>

the description is a bit long.  i think the second paragraph would
be appropriate.

> MSSStest is a program for implementing the method described in the
> article The Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score. R. Roxburgh S. Seaman et
> al. (2004), accepted for publication by Neurology. It calculates MSSS
> scores and uses these scores to test for differences between disease
> progression rates in different groups defined by genotype at some locus.

> The application of this predictor is technically not constrained to
> Multiple Sclerosis which justifies the presentation as a Debian package.

even if it were, i don't see why it wouldn't justify a debian package.
especially given some of the other stuff being proposed recently (i.e.:
the ITP on hot-babe)

> I have created a package and hope for a sponsor - which is of course a
> bit tricky for non-DFSG-compliant software.

have you tried to politely persuade upstream to change the terms of
their license?  it may be that they put that limitation on their
software not realizing its implications, or that perhaps there exists
another dfsg compliant license that would meet their needs as well
as debian's.


	sean

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