Hi Andreas, Unfortunately I didn't get any answer, here is the mail I've sent to the upstream. https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2019/09/msg00039.html
May be you or Steffen would like to try your luck, who knows, may be my email went to spam or something like that. Regards, Alex On 1/6/20 2:11 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > 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 >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >
