----- Mail original ----- > De: "Andreas Tille" <[email protected]> > À: [email protected] > Envoyé: Jeudi 14 Septembre 2017 19:05:21 > Objet: Help finding authors needed (Was: License of cluster3 becomes > unspecified since you are linking to a > non-existing URL) > > Hi list, > > both contacts of the Clustal 3.0 author I found > > "M. J. L. de Hoon" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Could find recent article where he works (2017) at "Division of Genomic Technologies, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan". His email seems to be michiel.dehoon [at] riken.jp (http://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/clst/genom_tech/life_sci_accel/genom_algo/) However, if not anymore in same institute, he won't be able to modify/update software license (property of institute i think) Olivier > > 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 > >
