Hi Andreas, Ok, we’ll GPL the next version — should be out in a month or so (with manual!!).
Best, Todd > On Aug 5, 2018, at 3:54 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside > Debian with the objective to package all free software that is used in > medicine and life sciences for official Debian. You might possibly know > that also tRNAscan-SE is packaged[1]. > > Unfortunately the trnascan-se package does not belong to the official > Debian distribution since this is not permitted by the licences of the > single file src/trnascan.c has a license that has restrictions which are > in conflict with the Debian Free Software Guidelines[2]. The "without > charge" restriction moves the software out of any distribution medium a > vendor might want to sell to users[item no. 1]. Its also lacking an > explicit permission to modify the software. > > It would be really nice if you would consider using some of the well > established free licenses like GPL or BSD to enable us to provide > tRNAscan-SE in official Debian. > > Thanks for considering > > Andreas. > > [1] https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#trnascan-se > [2] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > > -- > http://fam-tille.de
