That is truly sad, indeed. Many thanks go to his widow and to Prof. Eddy for caring. It is also an opportunity to think about how we as a community can grow. A donation box for instance would never be enough to feed the kids, but it would be something like a nice gesture about work and his creator not being forgotten. We should possibly bring this up at our next Sprint.
Thank for this pointer, Erik. Steffen On 20.08.19 11:07, Erik Sjölund wrote:
Hi Andreas, Regarding "Alex has once contacted upstream" note the sad news from https://cryptogenomicon.org/2019/03/11/farrars-striped-simd-smith-waterman/ Kind regards, Erik On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:06 PM Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:Hi Steffen, you have uploaded fasta3. When I wanted to upgrade to latest upstream I realised that it is in non-free just because of two files implementing a Smith Waterman algorithm. Alex has once contacted upstream as you can see on our SoftwareLiberation page[1]. At least the wiki page does not state any response. I wonder whether you might try to ping upstream or possibly use libssw or libsmithwaterman as a replacement. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/SoftwareLiberation -- http://fam-tille.de
