[Debian-med-packaging] New version of ABySS

[Shaun Jackman]

Hi, Andreas.

I’m afraid that I no longer frequently use Debian, as my current work place uses CentOS. I still prefer Debian, but I have little influence over this choice. So I will no longer maintain the Debian ABySS package.

I do incidentally maintain the Homebrew formula for ABySS. That formula could be a good reference when updating the Debian package.

The Expat license for debian/* sounds good to me.

DIALIGN is no longer used by ABySS. I’ve asked the current maintainer to remove it for the next release.

I’d prefer a free license for ABySS, but I’m not the sole copyright holder. It may happen one day. I’ll keep trying.

Cheers,
Shaun



-- 
http://sjackman.ca/

On 2015-July-15 at 0:12:12 , Andreas Tille (andreas at an3as.eu) wrote:

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.  
--  
http://fam-tille.de  
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