[Debian-med-packaging] Please clarify the license of prosite_scan (1994)

[Laszlo Kajan]

Dear Kay!

This is great news! Thank you very much for clarifying this.

Best regards,

Laszlo

On 14/07/12 21:51, Kay Hofmann wrote:
> Dear Lazlo,
> 
> Like all other software I have made available (so far), the script prosite_scan.pl that you refer to is in the public domain.
> Feel free to do with it whatever you like.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> 
> Kay
> 
>> I am Laszlo Kajan from Burkhard Rost's bioinformatics group in Munich.
>>
>> We use a version of your prosite_scan.pl [3]. The author (you) is mentioned in the script, but the licence is not. We would like to include this
>> script in a software package for Debian that contains open source protein sequence analysis tools.
>>
>> * Could you please tell us if prosite_scan.pl can be released under a free license, for example like Perl?
>>
>> I hope it is not covered under the restrictive PROSITE database license [1] as it is not distributed from [2].
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help in advance.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Laszlo Kajan
>> Rost Lab
>> Debian Maintainer
>>
>> [1] http://prosite.expasy.org/prosite_license.htm
>> [2] ftp://ftp.expasy.org/databases/prosite/
>> [3] ftp://lausanne.isb-sib.ch/pub/software/unix/prosite_scan/prosite_scan
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