Hi list, both contacts of the Clustal 3.0 author I found
"M. J. L. de Hoon" <[email protected]>, [email protected] bounced and I have also no contact to Michael Eisen. Any volunteer to do some address research? Thanks, Andreas. On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 06:01:37PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hello Michiel, > > I'm writing you again[1] about the license of Cluster 3.0. > Unfortunately nothing has happended since then since I did not found any > contact information. > > As license statement you are refering to > > http://rana.lbl.gov/EisenSoftwareSource.htm > > The fact that this URL does not exist any more is a good example why > using URLs instead of an explicit license text is not a good idea. The > current situation is that your software does not have any license at all > any more which would even make it non-distributable even in the non-free > area of the Debian mirror. > > I really appreciate that you agreed to a free license and I absolutely > share your assumption that Michael Eisen would probably agree as well. > Unfortunately I have no idea how to reach a person who could clarify the > license. In any case it would be a really good start if you would use a > free license for your own code and add the original license text to the > downloadable file. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2016/02/msg00000.html > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > -- http://fam-tille.de
