Hi Ole,
Since you cross-posted to multiple lists, I am not sure if you got a reply... did you? ;) > Has anyone already went through such an exercise and could assist me in > writing a nice E-mail? Or are there better ways to proceed? There were quite a few of such emails circulating on debian-med and quick google lead me to e.g. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012/ePetition_Phylip > However, the program is *very* old, and parts of it already leaked out > (rewritten in other programming languages) in some Open Source packages, > (astrolib [IDL] and IRAF) -- legally or not. > I asked the author whether the program could be made open source, but he > stated that "the lawyers in Ottawa" would forbid him to do so. One would need > to query the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada to discuss this. In my case, for NeuroDebian I also has contacted quite a few groups, and at times with additional persistence nearly in all cases we have managed to pursue original copyright holders to open-source their scientific projects, at times quite large and with outstanding legacy. So, even if initial reply would say "No", don't give up at once. More arguments an examples might shift original opinion. Cheers! -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
