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

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Mention the mail of Joe Felsenstein where he agrees to free license

  = Petition to the copyright holders of Phylip =
  
- The members of the [[https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med|Debian Med team]] and people who are interested in Free Software in life sciences would like to ask the copyright holders of [[http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html|Phylip]] to reconsider their [[http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/p/phylip/phylip_3.69-1/phylip.copyright|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 (for instance [[http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/seaview.html|SeaView]], [[http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/cvs/embassy/index.html#PHYLIPNEW|Embassy Phylip]] and others).  However, this conflicts with the following phrases of the Phylip license:
+ The members of the [[https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med|Debian Med team]] and people who are interested in Free Software in biology would like to ask the copyright holders of [[http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html|Phylip]] to reconsider their [[http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/p/phylip/phylip_3.69-1/phylip.copyright|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 (for instance [[http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/seaview.html|SeaView]], [[http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/cvs/embassy/index.html#PHYLIPNEW|Embassy Phylip]] and others).  However, this conflicts with the following phrases of the Phylip license:
  
    ...
    the programs are not integrated with or called by any product or
@@ -17, +17 @@

  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.
  
  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.
+ 
+ Since the author and copyright holder Joe Felsenstein [[https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2014-February/025164.html|confirmed]] that he has been seriously considering asking people responsible for licensing at the University of Washington to put PHYLIP under some Gnu or open license we, the people interested in Free Software in biology would like to support this attempt.
  
  == Signing Participants ==