[Debian-med-packaging] License of ART simulation tools to generate synthetic next-generation sequencing reads
w huang
whduke at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 15:02:35 UTC 2016
Hi Andreas and the Team,
Please see below for the GPL v3 License
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt) declaration for the ART software
tool.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it 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.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Thanks so much!
weichun
On 3/31/16 4:23 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Weichun,
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:01:16PM -0400, w huang wrote:
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> Thanks for your email and sorry for getting back to you so late. I just
>> read your email today as I have not checked this email for a while,
> Thanks for answering anyway.
>
>> It sounds to me that you are doing a great project. Thanks for doing that. I
>> will add a GPL or BSD like license to the source code when I get a chance.
> I do not know what you mean by "get a chance" but I could imagine the
> following possibilities:
>
> 1. Upload a new tarball including the licensing information
> 2. Mention the license on the download page
> 3. At minimum declare here on this mailing list (CC) the license
> at a publicly visible place.
>
> Kind regards and thanks for deciding for a free license
>
> Andreas.
>
>> On 2/19/16 4:40 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside
>>> Debian with the objective to make Debian the best operating system for
>>> medicine and biology. To do so we have packaged a lot of software for
>>> main Debian. Feel free to have a look at our so called task biology[1].
>>>
>>> Due to our recent effort to do some classification and benchmarking of
>>> biologic tools we try to package simulation tools to generate synthetic
>>> next-generation sequencing reads. While I can confirm that I finalised
>>> the packaging of ART on a technical level up to manpages for the single
>>> tools[3] which you can take over into your download tarball I have not
>>> found any license of your code neither on the website nor inside the
>>> download archive. The latter just contains an empty COPYRIGHT file. To
>>> publish the art-nextgen-simulation-tools package inside Debian a free
>>> license like GPL, BSD or others is required. Feel free to ask if you
>>> need specific advise.
>>>
>>> As an additional hint: The source downloads you are providing are split
>>> into "source for Linux" and "source for Mac" since you are also adding
>>> the binaries in addition to the source. This is quite unusual since the
>>> binaries could be downloaded in separate archives from your website. So
>>> I'd recommend to leave out the binaries (also the *.o files) and stick
>>> to the plain source in a single archive. Please also make sure its a
>>> real gzipped tar archive. While the extension is tgz the content is a
>>> plain uncompressed tar.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Andreas.
>>>
>>> [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
>>> [2] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#art-nextgen-simulation-tools
>>> [3] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/art-nextgen-simulation-tools.git/tree/debian/mans
>>>
>>
More information about the Debian-med-packaging
mailing list