Hello Mikita, This is wonderful news -- thank you very much! We really appreciate it.
Have a safe trip, 2017-10-10 11:46 GMT+02:00 Mikita Suyama <mik...@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp>: > Hi Peer, > > Thank you for forwarding the message. > > > Hello Michael, > > I will set GPL license to PAL2NAL to make the things clear. > > I'll modify the header of the code to clarify this license, and > put it to the download site, and also send a copy to you. > But, unfortunately, now I'm on my business trip and have little time > to access the code. So, I'll do this as soon as I come back to the > office, which will be on next Tuesday (Oct 17th). > > Best regards, > > Mikita > > -- > Mikita Suyama > Medical Institute of Bioregulation > Kyushu University > mik...@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp > > > On 2017/10/09 22:56, Peer Bork wrote: > > Hi Mikita, > > I never thought about licenses, but having a gnu etc thingy might be > better than having it open source. Up to you > Best Wishes > P > > From the Road... > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From:* "Michael R. Crusoe" <m...@commonwl.org> > *Date:* 9. October 2017 at 15:34:49 GMT+2 > *To:* mik...@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp, b...@embl.de > *Cc:* "moel...@debian.org" <moel...@debian.org>, Debian Med Project List > <debian-med@lists.debian.org>, Pjotr Prins <pjotr2...@thebird.nl> > *Subject:* *Lack of license for pal2nal* > > Hello, > > I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a subgroup > inside Debian with the objective to package free software in the field > of biology and medicine for official Debian releases. We have packaged > pal2nal but we can not distribute it as it has no license. > > Since Debian only distributes free software (for instance licensed under > GPL, BSD or so) we are wondering whether you might consider to publish > the source code of this software under a free license. > > The advantage would be that users of Debian / Ubuntu and its derivatives > systems which are quite frequently used in bioinformatics could easily > install your software. You also get some additional quality assurance > and I can confirm that all authors who decided to open source their > software to enable the Debian Med packaging team were happy about this > step since it contributed to a wider distribution of their software and > a better user response. > > Kind regards and thanks for considering, > > -- > Michael R. Crusoe > Co-founder & Lead, > Common Workflow Language project <http://www.commonwl.org/> > https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2961-9670 > m...@commonwl.org > > > -- Michael R. Crusoe Co-founder & Lead, Common Workflow Language project <http://www.commonwl.org/> https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2961-9670 m...@commonwl.org +1 480 627 9108
