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

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The "DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012/ePetition_Phylip" page has been changed by AndreasTille:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012/ePetition_Phylip?action=diff&rev1=43&rev2=44

Comment:
PHYLIP is now Free Software

+ = PHYLIP is now Free Software =
+ 
+ Thanks to the main PHYLIP author Joe Felsenstein it is now released under a free license and in Debian main
+ ([[https://packages.debian.org/sid/phylip|unstable]])
+ 
- = Petition to the copyright holders of Phylip =
+ == 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 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: