[Debian-med-packaging] License of ART simulation tools to generate synthetic next-generation sequencing reads

[Andreas Tille]

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
> >
> 
> 

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