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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