Hi Everyone, Charles Plessy, on 2020-05-08 09:19:59 +0900: > > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 11:24:00PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > > > > > At some point, I wondered if it would be possible to get > > > RepeatMasker into "non-free", and having VirusSeeker into > > > "contrib" then, but I'm not sure that this is legally doable > > > since VirusSeeker is GPL. > > Le Thu, May 07, 2020 at 11:39:18PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > > Hmmm, I do not remember but non-free is ugly for several technical > > reasons (no autobuilders, no autopkgtests, no QA checks etc.) Thus > > the first thing I do is contacting upstream to consider changing > > their license. Would you mind doing so? If yes, I would consider > > mentioning our COVID-19 sprint and that a free license would support > > us in our fight against the pandemic.
Thanks Andreas for reminding the technical implications, which /append/ to the legal ones. > +1 in principle, but I note that RepeatMasker has TRF (Tandem Repeat > Finder) in its dependencies, which is also non-free... > > http://tandem.bu.edu/trf/trf.license.html Thanks Charles for having spotted this, let's pull this wire and see where it leads. It sounds like licensecheck/scan-copyrights will be quite useful. > Have a nice day, Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier <etienne.moll...@mailoo.org> Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d Help find cures against the Covid-19 ! Give CPU cycles: * Rosetta@home: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ * Folding@home: https://foldingathome.org/
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