[Debian-med-packaging] New version of ABySS

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Shaun,

I intend to work on the latest version of ABySS since it seems you
personally do not intend to keep on maintaining the Debian package
(which I consider some loss since we have quite good experiences with
upstream maintaining Debian packages).

I noticed that the license of ABySS changed to what you call

 GPL-NC-3+
 You may use, redistribute and modify this software for non-commercial
 purposes under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
 License, or (at your option) any later version.

and thanks to choosing the Debian copyright format I can easily take
over this as debian/copyright.  However, I would like to add a
paragraph "Files: debian/*" where I need to mention your past
contribution as well as mine.  I would like to put it under GPL-3+
or Expat.  Is this OK for you?

Moreover the ABySS source contains a code copy of dialign-tx with slight
changes (I did not dived into the differences but the file sizes are
slightly different).  Could you please comment on this whether you see
any chance to use the Debian packaged version instead (may be enhanced
by some patches)?

Needles to say that in Debian we would welcome a fully free license but
I do it hereby anyway just to make you keep on thinking about it. :-)

Kind regards

        Andreas.
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