Re: Bioconductor package flowPeaks license Artistic 1.0?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

zimoun <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Ricardo,
>
> Thank you for your quick feedback.
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 23:16, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> That’s because version 1.0 is considered non-free.  “licenses.scm” also
>> contains “clarified-artistic”, which is essentially the same as version
>> 1.0 but with a few clarifications of those points that could be
>> interpreted as conditions making the software non-free.
>
> Thank you for the explanations.
>
> I sent an email to the maintainer to ask them to "upgrade" the
> license. Let see. :-)

It would be great if they could use the Clarified Artistic License
instead.  It’s really close to the Artistic 1.0, so unless they really
want the non-free interpretation of Artistic 1.0 it should be no trouble
for them to switch.

-- 
Ricardo