Hi Andreas, It has taken a couple of years, and I don't know if it's relevant any more, but GMAP and GSNAP are now released as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.
Thanks, Tom Thomas D. Wu, M.D., Ph.D. Principal Scientist, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Genentech <https://www.gene.com/>, A Member of the Roche Group Office +1 (650) 225-5672 t...@gene.com Join Genentech on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/genentech> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/genentech?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Genentech/> | Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/genentech/?hl=en> | YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/genentech> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:27 PM Andreas Tille <andr...@fam-tille.de> wrote: > Hi again Thomas, > > since I was checking the new version of gmap I also checked whether the > promising message of yours from Sep 05, 2017 regarding a licens change > might be realised. I have not seen any change in the COPYING file. Do > you keep on considering choosing a free license? > > I have also a technical question: It seems, version 2018-07-04 does not > build the library any more by default. I'm not a user of this software > nor the library in special (just checked the packaging which fails now > since the lib is not build). Does this mean the library is not > supported / recommended any more and we should drop that binary package > or is there just a new switch for configure (I tried --enable-lib but > failed) we need to use? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:33:01AM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > Dear Thomas, > > > > Taking into account the major rewrite of GMAP and GSNAP, I wonder if you > > could consider the license change as well? > > > > Thank you, > > Alex, on behalf of Debian-Med. > > > > On 09/05/2017 10:51 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Hi Thomas, > > > > > > thanks for you fast and positive response. Feel free to contact our > > > mailing list in case you might face problems. We have some experience > > > in licensing questions. > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > Andreas. > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:01:40AM -0700, Thomas Wu wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi Alex, > > >> > > >> Thanks for your note. It's something I will consider. In fact, our > > >> previous department head, Robert Gentleman, was the author of the R > > >> statistical package, and thought we should do this. However, he left > > >> our company some time ago, and we are still looking for a department > > >> head. > > >> > > >> I would also have to consult with our legal department, since the > > >> software was built using company resources and on company time. > > >> > > >> Regards, > > >> > > >> Tom > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Thomas D. Wu, M.D., Ph.D. > > >> Principal Scientist, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology > > >> Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080 > > >> Phone: 650-225-5672, Fax: 650-225-5389 > > >> E-mail: t...@gene.com > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 04:25:50PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group > inside > > >>> Debian with the objective to package free software with relevance in > > >>> biology and medicine for official Debian. As you might possibly > know we > > >>> have created packages also from gmap as you can see on our so > > >>> called tasks biology page[1]. > > >>> > > >>> According to the Debian Free Software Guidelines[2] which are widely > > >>> accepted as Open Source definition the current license is not free > since > > >>> it forbids the use and distribution of modified copy under some > > >>> conditions and also forbids free use of the software in commercial > products. > > >>> > > >>> I wonder whether you might consider changing the licensing to some > free > > >>> license like GPL, BSD or MPL - just anything that has no such > > >>> restriction to non-commercial use and use of modified code. You > might > > >>> like to know that several other authors of biologic software recently > > >>> switched to free licenses (may be most prominently phylib). The > > >>> advantage for you inside Debian would be a higher visibility of gmap > > >>> (since we distribute it with metapackages) and a way better quality > > >>> assurance since Debian is running several tools to automatically > detect > > >>> problems inside the distributed software. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Kind regards and thanks for your cooperation > > >>> > > >>> Alex > > >>> > > >>> [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#gmap > > >>> [2] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > > >>> > > >> End of quote > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > >
