Shayan Doust <he...@shayandoust.me> writes: > A simple grep we can get an idea of how extensively the ncbi_blast > headers and soures are referenced: > > https://paste.debian.net/1154499/
In general, ncbi-blast+ comes from NCBI's C++ Toolkit (home page https://ncbi.github.io/cxx-toolkit/, sources from https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools++/CURRENT), which builds libraries for public consumption but is a behemoth with its own release schedule. Moreover, mecat gives the NCBI code it bundles completely different paths (with, e.g., cmdline_args and str_util both containing subsets of the C++ Toolkit's {include,src}/corelib), though I suppose that's more of a formality. That said, this duplication is of a sufficiently small portion of ncbi-blast+ (let alone the entire C++ Toolkit) that I'm OK with letting it slide, which is certainly fine from a legal perspective (NCBI's code all being public domain). Thanks for asking! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?a...@monk.mit.edu
