[Debian-med-packaging] License of ART simulation tools to generate synthetic next-generation sequencing reads

[w huang]

Hi Andreas and the Team,

Please see below for the GPL v3 License 
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt) declaration for the ART software 
tool.

     This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
     the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
     (at your option) any later version.

     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
     GNU General Public License for more details.

     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
     along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


Thanks so much!

weichun

On 3/31/16 4:23 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Weichun,
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:01:16PM -0400, w huang wrote:
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> Thanks for your email and sorry for getting back to you so late.  I just
>> read your email today as I have not checked this email for a while,
> Thanks for answering anyway.
>
>> It sounds to me that you are doing a great project. Thanks for doing that. I
>> will add a GPL or BSD like license to the source code when I get a chance.
> I do not know what you mean by "get a chance" but I could imagine the
> following possibilities:
>
>    1. Upload a new tarball including the licensing information
>    2. Mention the license on the download page
>    3. At minimum declare here on this mailing list (CC) the license
>       at a publicly visible place.
>
> Kind regards and thanks for deciding for a free license
>
>         Andreas.
>
>> On 2/19/16 4:40 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside
>>> Debian with the objective to make Debian the best operating system for
>>> medicine and biology.  To do so we have packaged a lot of software for
>>> main Debian.  Feel free to have a look at our so called task biology[1].
>>>
>>> Due to our recent effort to do some classification and benchmarking of
>>> biologic tools we try to package simulation tools to generate synthetic
>>> next-generation sequencing reads.  While I can confirm that I finalised
>>> the packaging of ART on a technical level up to manpages for the single
>>> tools[3] which you can take over into your download tarball I have not
>>> found any license of your code neither on the website nor inside the
>>> download archive.  The latter just contains an empty COPYRIGHT file.  To
>>> publish the art-nextgen-simulation-tools package inside Debian a free
>>> license like GPL, BSD or others is required.  Feel free to ask if you
>>> need specific advise.
>>>
>>> As an additional hint:  The source downloads you are providing are split
>>> into "source for Linux" and "source for Mac" since you are also adding
>>> the binaries in addition to the source.  This is quite unusual since the
>>> binaries could be downloaded in separate archives from your website.  So
>>> I'd recommend to leave out the binaries (also the *.o files) and stick
>>> to the plain source in a single archive.  Please also make sure its a
>>> real gzipped tar archive.  While the extension is tgz the content is a
>>> plain uncompressed tar.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>>           Andreas.
>>>
>>> [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
>>> [2] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#art-nextgen-simulation-tools
>>> [3] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/art-nextgen-simulation-tools.git/tree/debian/mans
>>>
>>