Hi Ricardo,

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:31 PM Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

>
> Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Looking at the license text:
> >
> > Copyright ©2015. The Regents of the University of California (Regents).
> All
> > Rights Reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
> software
> > and its documentation for educational and research not-for-profit
> purposes,
> > without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted,
> > provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the
> following two
> > paragraphs appear in all copies, modifications, and distributions.
> Contact The
> > Office of Technology Licensing, UC Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite
> 510,
> > Berkeley, CA 94720-1620, (510) 643-7201, for commercial licensing
> > opportunities.
> >
> >
> > It seems the license is {fsf, dfsg} non-free because it does not allow
> > commercial usage. More precisely, it violates freedom 0 (the freedom to
> > run the program as you wish, for any purpose).
>
> Correct.  Kallisto is non-free software.
>
> > Does anybody know of any fork or should we use an old version?
>
> I don’t know of any version that is free software.
>

Looking around, I saw that you are using Kallisto at BIMSB and you have
other software I need (latest rsem);  Other software I want to work/port to
guix are https://github.com/tderrien/FEELnc,
https://github.com/Teichlab/tracer ( and Trinity). Does it make sense to
contribute to https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/ or do you suggest to go with
a personal/independent repo ?

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