Dear Andreas, Thank you for contacting Berkeley Lab's Innovation and Partnerships Office with your question re: Gregory Sims' program, ffp-phylogeny.
Peter Bluford, cc'd, is the technology commercialization handling biosciences technologies. He can offer next steps forward. Best regards, Suzanne Suzanne T. Storar, P.E. 510-486-4306 Communications and Outreach Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Berkeley, CA Available Technologies: http://ipo.lbl.gov/tech-index/ *Follow us on Twitter: @techLBNL* On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear ladies and gentlemen, > > I was told by the copyright holder of ffp-phylogeny Gregory E. Sims that > I should address my question to the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab which > I'm hereby doing. > > I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team that has the objective > to package Free Software that is relevant in Biology and Medicine for > main Debian. There is an overview what we have assembled up to now[1]. > > One of my users asked me to package the programm ffp-phylogeny[1]. The > creation of package files went smoothly thanks to your well designed > build system. The needed files are injected into our packaging > repository[3]. > > Unfortunately the license of ffp-phylogeny does not permit distribution > by Debian since it is in contrast with item 5. and 6. with the Debian > Free Software Guidelines[4] since commercial users / usage are > discriminated by your license statement. I wonder whether you might > consider to change this license to one of the common free licenses for > instance GPL or BSD. > > Thanks for considering > > Andreas. > > > [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio > [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffp-phylogeny/ > [3] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/ffp.git > [4] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > >
