Hi Erik, I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside Debian with the objective to package Free Software in the field of medicine and biology. My intention is to package FreeBayes. To do so I was working on libsmithwaterman and libfastahack since in Debian we are following the modularisation principle and these are needed to build libvcflib. Since it simplifies the build process I've created autoconf support which you can find in our packaging git if you are interested ([1], [2]).
BTW, you could support my attempt by adding proper version numbers to the libraries and tag the releases in Github. However, the main issue why I'm writing to you is that our ftpmaster noticed that both libraries are lacking an explicite licensing statement. While there is the file libdisorder.LICENSE in both repositories this seems to cover only the code copy or libdisorder and not your own code. It would be good if you could clarify the licensing of your code for both libraries. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/libfastahack.git/tree/debian/patches/autoconf.patch [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/libsmithwaterman.git/tree/debian/patches/autoconf.patch -- http://fam-tille.de