List of software that was liberated due to negotiations of the Debian Med team with the authors

The Debian Med team tries to encourage authors of scientific software to release their code under DFSG free licenses. This page lists some results of this effort.

See also DebianMed/DataLiberation

Software

Debian Med contact

Upstream confirmation

Date

phylip

ePetition

Joe Felsenstein

2014-02-26

seaview

Depends from phylip

Consequence of freeing phylip

2014-02-26

colt

Debian Med list

No response - fixed by removing affected code parts

2015-03-15

f2j

Debian Med list

No response - fixed by removing affected code parts

2016-01-29

beast-mcmc

Depends from colt and f2j

Consequence of freeing colt and f2j

2016-06-02

fsm-lite

Debian Med list

Author added GPL license file

2016-04-13

fastml

Debian Med list

Private mail from Haim Ashkenazy confirming GPL-2

2015-11-18

eigensoft

Debian Med list

Alkes Price

2016-07-18

ABySS

Debian Med list

License changed in tarball after upstream authors agreed

2016-10-31

MALT

Debian Med list

Repository is open

2016-10-11

paml

User forum

GPL

2017-03-21

pal2nal

Debian Med list

Author has changed to GPL

2017-10-10

segemehl

Debian Med list

GPL

2018-10-04

Genome Analysis Toolkit

MIT

emmax

Debian Med list

MIT

2019-03

Vmatch

Personal communication

Previously closed-source code released on ?GitHub (ISC)

2019-02-11

GenomeThreader

Personal communication

Previously closed-source code released on ?GitHub (ISC)

2019-02-11

fasta3

Debian Med list

Used freely license of libssw

2020-01-11

r-cran-locfit

Debian Med list

License clarified

2020-03-27

GMAP

Debian Med list

License changed to Apache-2.0

2020-04-11

trf

Free code at Github

AGPL

2020-06-28

vbz-compression

Free code at Github

MPL-2.0

2020-06-19

minknow_api

Issue on GitHub

MPL-2.0

2021-02-11

Ugene

Several discussion with upstream

Droping non-free optional components

2023-12-12

Discussion in progress

Software

Debian Med contact

Status upstream

Date

gblocks

Debian Med list

No answer yet

2011-02-02

blat

Debian Med packaging list

Further discussionGithub issue icreated in Covid-19 hackathon

2020-04-07

varscan

Issue on Github

Issue closed

2016-11-01

ffp

Debian Med list

Promising but insufficient answer

2020-04-16

mssstest

Debian Med list

Refused

2016-01-15

cluster3

Debian Med list

Michiel de Hoon

2020-02-06

blimps and sift

Debian Med list

Pauline Ng: Dual license GPL possible

2016-01-15

fastsimcoal2

User forum

Laurent Excoffier: "No source code" without arguments

2016-06-23

pcma

Debian Med list

No answer yet

2017-01-04

SignalP

Debian Med list

No answer yet

2017-04-25

GeneMark

Debian Med list

No answer yet

2017-04-25

CARD RGI

Debian Med list

No answer yet

2017-05-12

locfit

Issue on Github

No answer yet

2017-09-06

seq-gen

Issue on Github

No answer yet

2017-09-06

trnascan-se

Debian Med list

No answer yet

2018-08-05

libarb

Debian Med list

No answer yet

2019-04-24

aparapi

Github issueGitter discussion

Apache-2.0 license confirmed but further discussions needed as additional restrictions in ATTRIBUTIONS.md may contaminate other software

2020-11-03

Meme

Debian Med list

No answer yet

2021-03-24

gramalign

Debian Med list

No answer yet

2021-06-09

gpclib

Debian R list

No intend to change

2021-07-01

caftools

Med devel lost

No answer yet

2022-03-14

pychopper

Github issue

No intent to change

2023-06-18

galaxy

start auditing contributors to check for relicensing

project is willing to relicense to MIT but finding all past contributors is hard

2023-09-18

Todo

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