Hi again Thomas,
since I was checking the new version of gmap I also checked whether the
promising message of yours from Sep 05, 2017 regarding a licens change
might be realised. I have not seen any change in the COPYING file. Do
you keep on considering choosing a free license?
I have also a technical question: It seems, version 2018-07-04 does not
build the library any more by default. I'm not a user of this software
nor the library in special (just checked the packaging which fails now
since the lib is not build). Does this mean the library is not
supported / recommended any more and we should drop that binary package
or is there just a new switch for configure (I tried --enable-lib but
failed) we need to use?
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:33:01AM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> Dear Thomas,
>
> Taking into account the major rewrite of GMAP and GSNAP, I wonder if you
> could consider the license change as well?
>
> Thank you,
> Alex, on behalf of Debian-Med.
>
> On 09/05/2017 10:51 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > thanks for you fast and positive response. Feel free to contact our
> > mailing list in case you might face problems. We have some experience
> > in licensing questions.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:01:40AM -0700, Thomas Wu wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Alex,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your note. It's something I will consider. In fact, our
> >> previous department head, Robert Gentleman, was the author of the R
> >> statistical package, and thought we should do this. However, he left
> >> our company some time ago, and we are still looking for a department
> >> head.
> >>
> >> I would also have to consult with our legal department, since the
> >> software was built using company resources and on company time.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thomas D. Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
> >> Principal Scientist, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
> >> Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080
> >> Phone: 650-225-5672, Fax: 650-225-5389
> >> E-mail: twu@gene.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 04:25:50PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside
> >>> Debian with the objective to package free software with relevance in
> >>> biology and medicine for official Debian. As you might possibly know we
> >>> have created packages also from gmap as you can see on our so
> >>> called tasks biology page[1].
> >>>
> >>> According to the Debian Free Software Guidelines[2] which are widely
> >>> accepted as Open Source definition the current license is not free since
> >>> it forbids the use and distribution of modified copy under some
> >>> conditions and also forbids free use of the software in commercial products.
> >>>
> >>> I wonder whether you might consider changing the licensing to some free
> >>> license like GPL, BSD or MPL - just anything that has no such
> >>> restriction to non-commercial use and use of modified code. You might
> >>> like to know that several other authors of biologic software recently
> >>> switched to free licenses (may be most prominently phylib). The
> >>> advantage for you inside Debian would be a higher visibility of gmap
> >>> (since we distribute it with metapackages) and a way better quality
> >>> assurance since Debian is running several tools to automatically detect
> >>> problems inside the distributed software.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards and thanks for your cooperation
> >>>
> >>> Alex
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#gmap
> >>> [2] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> >>>
> >> End of quote
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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