Hi Bill, that's really good news! Thanks a lot, Andreas.
On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 09:07:41PM +0000, Pearson, William R (wrp) wrote: > I just checked with Sean Eddy, and he said I have permission to change the > license, which I will do this week and commit an updated release with the > open source license. > I will let you know when that’s done. > > Bill > > > On Feb 8, 2020, at 2:13 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > > > I'm coming back to Alex's question. We would really like to provide > > fasta3 as Debian package. Unfortunately the license restriction > > mentioned below is not permitting this. Would you consider to adapt > > the license in your source code? > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > Andreas. > > > >> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:12:20AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > >> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med project which tries to > >> assemble free software in life sciences into Debian to support this > >> field of endeavour as best as possible. (Here you can find a list of the > >> packaged software[0].) Fasta3 uses files licensed under a non-free > >> academic-only license: > >> src/global_sse2.c > >> src/global_sse2.h > >> src/glocal_sse2.c > >> src/glocal_sse2.h > >> src/smith_waterman_sse2.c > >> and thus according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines[1] which are > >> widely accepted as Open Source definition, fasta3 is considered non-free > >> even if other components are licensed under an open source license. > >> However recently I stumbled upon the article[2] and according this > >> article the license of Michael Farrar’s striped SIMD Smith/Waterman has > >> been changed to BSD open source license. > >> Could you please take this change into consideration and update the > >> license of the files mentioned above ? This will make fasta3 completely > >> free software. > >> > >> Thank you, > >> Alex > >> > >> [0] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio > >> [1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > >> [2] > >> https://cryptogenomicon.org/2019/03/11/farrars-striped-simd-smith-waterman/ > >> > >> > > > > -- > > http://fam-tille.de -- http://fam-tille.de
