Hi all, hi Steffen, I was just reading a paper in which they patched primer3, and this led me digging the web to see it were already in Debian. It appears that there is an unofficial package made by Steffen, and that the ITP has been closed a few days ago.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241235 Primer3 is unfortunately non-free, and the README.Debian file of Steffen's package indicates that it is unlikely that the licence can be changed. But I am wondering something : did you realise that the licence is the "old BSD licence" ? If not, it may be worthwile to contact the authors again, and explain them that many universities agreed to remove the non-free paragraph in their licences. (See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html for more details). I am a happy user of primer3 (more than 200 pairs designed), and I would be a bit frustrated if it would not make it in the main archive, especially because there is a very useful wrapper in EMBOSS, which will go in main when the package will be ready. Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
