Dear Andreas, Thank you for your e-mail. Beagle will ultimately be open source. It is not yet open source because the program is still being intensively developed, and the source code and includes unpublished research (statistical methods and computational methods that are undergoing continuous development and that are not yet published). I will probably make source code for older versions of Beagle open source later this year, and this would probably serve your purpose. If you e-mail me in August, I could give you an update then.
Best regards, Brian -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Tille [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:51 AM To: [email protected]; Debian Med Project List Subject: BEAGLE Genetic Analysis for Debian Med Dear Brian, I'm writing on behalf of the Debian Med project which tries to assemble Free Software for bio-medical research in a ready to install form inside the Debian GNU/Linux system (and thus as a consequence into Ubuntu). Your product BEAGLE Genetic Analysis Software Package[1] is used in the famous Beast phylogenie software and thus we would try to package it as precondition for it. Unfortunately it can not be added to main Debian repository without being open source. On you website you provide ready builded JAR files with a license: You may download and use the BEAGLE executable file for non-commercial and commercial research. BEAGLE is distributed on an "AS IS" basis. For an inclusion into Debian we need the source code and the permission to change the source code. Typical licenses are GPL, LGPL or BSD. If you would consider to provide the source under a free license we hope to be able to make your program even more popular in the bio-medical researchers world because Debian and its bio-medical derivatives seem to become more and more interesting by assembling a useful set of tools which covers all workfields in Biology. What is more the community could help with fixing any bugs in your application and maintain the code for future. Kind regards, Andreas. [1] http://faculty.washington.edu/browning/beagle/beagle.html -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
