Hi again,
any progress with this?
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:51:28AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> Thanks Erik!
>
> I'll try to get in touch with upstream and inform them that the code is
> actually free.
> However, while packaging of swsse2 makes sense, the source code is not
> providing drop-in replacement for the code in fasta3. Nevertheless the
> upstream of fasta3 can change the license anyway as far as I understand.
>
> Best,
> Alex
>
>
> On 9/6/19 9:22 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > beside the sad issue: Is someone taking over the packaging of the code
> > and did you talked with fast3 upstream that the code is actually free?
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 02:39:05PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> >> That is truly sad, indeed. Many thanks go to his widow and to Prof. Eddy
> >> for caring. It is also an opportunity to think about how we as a
> >> community can grow. A donation box for instance would never be enough to
> >> feed the kids, but it would be something like a nice gesture about work
> >> and his creator not being forgotten. We should possibly bring this up at
> >> our next Sprint.
> >>
> >> Thank for this pointer, Erik.
> >>
> >> Steffen
> >>
> >> On 20.08.19 11:07, Erik Sjölund wrote:
> >>> Hi Andreas,
> >>>
> >>> Regarding "Alex has once contacted upstream" note the sad news from
> >>> https://cryptogenomicon.org/2019/03/11/farrars-striped-simd-smith-waterman/
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>> Erik
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:06 PM Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Steffen,
> >>>>
> >>>> you have uploaded fasta3. When I wanted to upgrade to latest upstream I
> >>>> realised that it is in non-free just because of two files implementing a
> >>>> Smith Waterman algorithm. Alex has once contacted upstream as you can
> >>>> see on our SoftwareLiberation page[1]. At least the wiki page does not
> >>>> state any response.
> >>>>
> >>>> I wonder whether you might try to ping upstream or possibly use libssw
> >>>> or libsmithwaterman as a replacement.
> >>>>
> >>>> Kind regards
> >>>>
> >>>> Andreas.
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/SoftwareLiberation
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> http://fam-tille.de
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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