[Debichem-devel] some improvements to the vmd packaging

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

Quoting Johannes Schauer (2013-09-13 15:36:54)
> We also noticed two additional problems. Vmd needs binaries called Stride and
> SURF (not the image registration surf) for certain displaying tasks. Those
> binaries are under their own non-free undistributable licenses which of course
> adds additional headache... Both can currently be downloaded from here:
> 
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/extsrcs/
> 
> Instead of creating new source and binary packages from them, I would just
> include them into the vmd source package. Does that sound right?

This problem nearly solved itself as the stride upstream authors agreed to
relicense it under the terms of the MIT license. I uploaded it to github with
the agreed license change:

https://github.com/josch/stride

Does any other software make use of protein secondary structure identification
through the stride algorithm? In that case it would make sense to create a
Debian package of it. Since it's now MIT it could even go into main.

cheers, josch