[med-svn] [Debian Wiki] Update of "DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012/ePetition_Phylip" by TimBooth

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Signed the petition and also tweaked the text

  = Petition to the authors of Phylip =
  
- The participants of the [[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012|Debian Med sprint in Southport (27.01. to 29.01.2012)]] would like to ask the authors of [[http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html|Phylip]] for reconsidering their licensing conditions.  The signers of this petition have a strong interest in including Phylip into the Debian distribution however, this conflicts with the following phrases of the Phylip license:
+ The participants of the [[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012|Debian Med sprint in Southport (27.01. to 29.01.2012)]] would like to ask the authors of [[http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html|Phylip]] to reconsider their licensing conditions.  The signers of this petition have a strong interest in including Phylip into the Debian distribution, along with otherwise free tools that inherit portions of the Phylip code.  However, this conflicts with the following phrases of the Phylip license:
  
    ...
    the programs are not integrated with or called by any product or
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    be directed to  license @ u.washington.edu
    ...
  
- These phrases are in conflict with items 6., 7. and 9. of the [[http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines|Debian Free Software Guidelines]] which are widely accepte as [[http://www.opensource.org/osd.html|Open Source definition]] because redistribution is restricted to specific cases.
+ These phrases are in conflict with items 6., 7. and 9. of the [[http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines|Debian Free Software Guidelines]] which are widely accepted as [[http://www.opensource.org/osd.html|Open Source definition]] because redistribution is restricted to specific cases.
  
- It would be really helpful for the integration into Debian as well as for Debian derived distributions like Ubuntu and thus BioLinux if you might consider a wording that would enable free redistribution. Alternatively you might want to release Phylip under well known free licenses like for instance GPL, Apache, MPL or BSD.
+ To enable the full integration of Phylip into Debian, as well as Debian derived distributions like Ubuntu and Bio-Linux, we ask the copyright holders to consider a wording that would enable free redistribution.  Alternatively you might want to release Phylip under well known free licenses like for instance GPL, Apache, MPL or BSD.
  
  == Signing Participants ==
  
  ||'''Name'''          ||'''E-Mail'''            ||'''Organisation''' ||
  ||Andreas Tille       ||tille at debian.org        ||Debian             ||
+ ||Timothy Booth       ||tbooth at ceh.ac.uk        ||UK Natural Environment Research Council, Bio-Linux  ||
  
  == Further reading ==
   1. [[http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines|Debian Free Software Guidelines]]