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 |
2014-02-26 |
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Depends from phylip |
Consequence of freeing phylip |
2014-02-26 |
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No response - fixed by removing affected code parts |
2015-03-15 |
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No response - fixed by removing affected code parts |
2016-01-29 |
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Depends from colt and f2j |
Consequence of freeing colt and f2j |
2016-06-02 |
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Author added GPL license file |
2016-04-13 |
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Private mail from Haim Ashkenazy confirming GPL-2 |
2015-11-18 |
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2016-07-18 |
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License changed in tarball after upstream authors agreed |
2016-10-31 |
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2016-10-11 |
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GPL |
2017-03-21 |
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2017-10-10 |
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GPL |
2018-10-04 |
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MIT |
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MIT |
2019-03 |
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Personal communication |
Previously closed-source code released on ?GitHub (ISC) |
2019-02-11 |
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Personal communication |
Previously closed-source code released on ?GitHub (ISC) |
2019-02-11 |
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Used freely license of libssw |
2020-01-11 |
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License clarified |
2020-03-27 |
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License changed to Apache-2.0 |
2020-04-11 |
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AGPL |
2020-06-28 |
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MPL-2.0 |
2020-06-19 |
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2021-02-11 |
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Several discussion with upstream |
Droping non-free optional components |
2023-12-12 |
Discussion in progress
Software |
Debian Med contact |
Status upstream |
Date |
No answer yet |
2011-02-02 |
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Further discussionGithub issue icreated in Covid-19 hackathon |
2020-04-07 |
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2016-11-01 |
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2020-04-16 |
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2016-01-15 |
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2020-02-06 |
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Pauline Ng: Dual license GPL possible |
2016-01-15 |
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Laurent Excoffier: "No source code" without arguments |
2016-06-23 |
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No answer yet |
2017-01-04 |
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No answer yet |
2017-04-25 |
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No answer yet |
2017-04-25 |
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No answer yet |
2017-05-12 |
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No answer yet |
2017-09-06 |
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No answer yet |
2017-09-06 |
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No answer yet |
2018-08-05 |
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No answer yet |
2019-04-24 |
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Apache-2.0 license confirmed but further discussions needed as additional restrictions in ATTRIBUTIONS.md may contaminate other software |
2020-11-03 |
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No answer yet |
2021-03-24 |
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No answer yet |
2021-06-09 |
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No intend to change |
2021-07-01 |
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No answer yet |
2022-03-14 |
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No intent to change |
2023-06-18 |
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project is willing to relicense to MIT but finding all past contributors is hard |
2023-09-18 |
Todo