I got a reply privately about this. The answer to the relaxing the licensing is no--in particulare, they do not care for redistribution and do not want it.
As for the test mismatch, the difference there is inconsequential. regards Afif على الأحد 22 كانون الثاني 2017 13:35، كتب Afif Elghraoui: > Hello, > > I didn't get any response to this message of mine from last May. There > are two points there: one is the output of the test suite and the other > is the request to consider less restrictive licensing. > > Thanks and regards > Afif > > على الخميس 5 أيار 2016 15:25، كتب Afif Elghraoui: >> Hello, >> I ran the tests on my copy of signalp 4.1c and the output does not >> exactly match the expected output for two cases. I'm not sure whether >> the differences are significant, but here are the results from my test >> run anyway: >> >> afif@saam:~/sysadmin/alborz/apps/signalp$ make -k -f debian/tests/Makefile >> signalp -t euk -f short test/euk10.fsa | diff -u test/euk10.fsa.short_out - >> signalp -t euk -f long test/euk10.fsa | diff -u test/euk10.fsa.long_out - >> --- test/euk10.fsa.long_out 2013-01-04 03:27:22.000000000 -0800 >> +++ - 2016-05-05 15:07:26.697420248 -0700 >> @@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ >> 45 D 0.110 0.113 0.270 >> 46 Y 0.098 0.115 0.251 >> 47 E 0.100 0.116 0.250 >> - 48 D 0.100 0.111 0.244 >> + 48 D 0.101 0.111 0.244 >> 49 Y 0.106 0.117 0.244 >> 50 A 0.099 0.112 0.228 >> 51 S 0.096 0.111 0.218 >> debian/tests/Makefile:8: recipe for target 'euk10.fsa.long_out' failed >> make: *** [euk10.fsa.long_out] Error 1 >> signalp -t euk -f all test/euk10.fsa | diff -u test/euk10.fsa.all_out - >> --- test/euk10.fsa.all_out 2013-01-04 03:23:57.000000000 -0800 >> +++ - 2016-05-05 15:07:27.307406112 -0700 >> @@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ >> 45 D 0.110 0.113 0.109 0.113 0.109 >> 46 Y 0.098 0.115 0.100 0.119 0.109 >> 47 E 0.100 0.116 0.101 0.120 0.111 >> -48 D 0.100 0.111 0.103 0.114 0.112 >> +48 D 0.101 0.111 0.103 0.114 0.112 >> 49 Y 0.106 0.117 0.105 0.116 0.114 >> 50 A 0.099 0.112 0.101 0.116 0.114 >> 51 S 0.096 0.111 0.099 0.115 0.112 >> debian/tests/Makefile:8: recipe for target 'euk10.fsa.all_out' failed >> make: *** [euk10.fsa.all_out] Error 1 >> signalp -t euk -f summary test/euk10.fsa | diff -u >> test/euk10.fsa.summary_out - >> >> >> My operating system is Debian 8. Do you think this discrepancy would >> cause any problems? Also, I was wondering whether you would consider >> less restrictive licensing. That would allow for redistribution in >> platforms like Debian and give your program greater exposure to users >> and contributors. >> >> Many thanks and regards >> Afif >> > >