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Update paml related files to make seq-gen free

Open mestia opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

For long time seq-gen was considered non-free due to non-free license of paml parts. Currently the situation has changed and paml is released under GPL license. I wonder if you can update the outdated paml code in seq-gen and make it this way completely free ? This will enable me to include seq-gen to the main repository of Debian. Currently I can not do this as the old paml code doesn't comply with Debian Free Software Guidelines.

mestia avatar Sep 06 '17 15:09 mestia

This would be very welcome. When I was disputing with paml authors I always had in mind to also free seq-gen. Besides the free licensing updated code base might have extra advantages. Thanks for considering, Andreas.

tillea avatar Sep 07 '17 06:09 tillea

After a deeper look it seems that eigen.c and eigen.h are public domain. For example the same code: http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~hcwang/Procov/v1.0src/eigen.c

mestia avatar Oct 02 '17 08:10 mestia