Francois Jeanmougin wrote:
> In article <subhfvfohuc.fsf at unst.sanger.ac.uk>,
> Peter Rice <pmr at sanger.ac.uk> writes:
>> > EGCG 9.1 is stalled because GCG claim ownership rights to all the
> > code. In particular, they refuse to let me reuse any of my source
> > code in any other development.
>> ...
>> François.
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> François Jeanmougin | groupe de bioinformatique / bioinformatics groupe
> tel:(+33) 3 88 65 32 71 | IGBMC BP 163 67404 Illkirch France
You know I was worried about this when GCG first announced this change. I
understand the need to keep intellectual property protected. However , in
this case I believe GCG is shooting itself in the foot. I wonder if they
would consider a conditional agreement for using the code for free. This may
include not using the code for profit etc. Besides aren't a lot of programs
just given to GCG (ie. FASTA etc.) ? I seem to recall they don't pay for
program submissions.
I know here at the UR, folks would love to have the EGCG option as a Seqlab
menu option. But, I'll settle for EMBOSS (hint! hint!...Peter) :)
Regards,
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on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software
demands
