From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add seqtk. Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 17:51:01 +1000 Message-ID: <55AA0565.7080205@uq.edu.au> References: <558A3B1A.4010700@uq.edu.au> <87zj3pi9zs.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGMtv-0005cU-Qb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2015 03:51:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGMts-0006F0-LN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2015 03:51:15 -0400 Received: from mailhub2.soe.uq.edu.au ([130.102.132.209]:55703 helo=newmailhub.uq.edu.au) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGMtr-0006Ec-PF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2015 03:51:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zj3pi9zs.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On 24/06/15 22:09, Mark H Weaver wrote: > However, there's a bigger problem here. Some of the code is not clearly > licensed or has invalid copyright notices: > > * The copyright notice on kstring.h lacks copyright dates. > > * The copyright dates in seqtk.c and LICENSE are incorrect > ("20082-2012"). > > * ksw.h and trimadap.c lack any copyright notice at all. The mere > presence of a LICENSE file is not enough, especially given the lack of > any statement about the code license in the README. > > Would you be willing to ask the author to fix these issues? I did this almost a month ago https://github.com/lh3/seqtk/pull/60 But no response as yet. I think the common sense here is that it is expat licensed, WDYT? It would be a shame to exclude this software as it is quite well used in bioinformatics generally, but I'm happy to defer to your decision.