The guppy binary license is https://nanoporetech.com/sites/default/files/s3/terms/Nanopore-product-terms-and-conditions-nov2018-v2.pdf No source code is provided. No competitors of the company may use the software. Must be for "research use only".
https://github.com/nanoporetech/flappie/blob/master/LICENCE.txt "Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Ltd. Public License Version 1.0" is used to license some of their "source available" software Only permits "research purposes", violating DFSG guideline #6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" https://github.com/haotianteng/Chiron/blob/master/LICENSE.md is the Mozilla Public License and is DFSG compatible On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 6:40 PM Ben Tris <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to pop in. > I think this license should be reviewed, > unless sure it is not a free license. > To me it looks like a free software license. > Although not understand most. > > What is making this license non-free? > > On 27-04-20 17:06, Jun Aruga wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:43 PM Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi again, > >> > >> this brings up again my point: We *really*, *really* should take the > >> chance right now to ask upstreams for free licensing. The time is good. > >> We just need somebody who is really doing this. > > For us, the free licensing is good. But for the company nanopore > > technologies it is their core competency. > > I am not sure we can make it happen, but it might be worth trying to ask. > > > >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 04:21:12PM +0200, Michael Crusoe wrote: > >>> Extracting the linked deb, one finds a binary and a very restrictive > >>> license. I do not believe that guppy source code is available nor it is > >>> likely to become available any time soon. > >>> > >>> While some of their other basecallers have source code available, I > would > >>> not call the license OSS: > >>> https://github.com/nanoporetech/flappie/blob/master/LICENCE.txt > > I found guppy client software that might be an alternative to use > > guppy's function. > > https://github.com/nanoporetech/pyguppyclient > > > > As Michael mentioned, checking other basecallers for nanopore, then > > communicating the nf-core/nanoseq project using the alternative base > > caller optionally. > > > > I found an interesting document about the basecallers. > > https://github.com/rrwick/Basecalling-comparison > > > > Performance of neural network basecalling tools for Oxford Nanopore > sequencing > > > https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-019-1727-y > > > >> In this study, we tested four basecalling programs developed by ONT – > Albacore, Guppy, Scrappie and Flappie > >> ... > >> We also tested Chiron (https://github.com/haotianteng/Chiron), a > third-party basecaller still under development that uses a deeper neural > network than ONT’s basecallers [3]. > > The third party basecaller Chiron's license is Mozilla Public License, > v. 2.0. > > https://github.com/haotianteng/Chiron/blob/master/LICENSE.md > > > > -- Michael R. Crusoe
