As a result of some endeavors at our lab, Lina and I found ourselves in need of phyml, a program used for computing maximum likelihood phylogenies. After some correspondence with Stephane, the upstream developer of phyml, I was able to obtain GPL’d source and permission to create an eBuild as well as mirror the source as a Gentoo distfile.
Short story shorter: phyml is coming to a portage tree near you shortly.
That’s awesome that you got him to GPL it!
Actually, I didn’t get Stephane to GPL it at all. In fact, when I asked for the source and the license, I got what appeared to be a form letter (what can I say, true geeks script away the repetitive stuff) containing the URL for the source. Upon extracting the tarball, I found the GPL license inside.
The bottom line: it’s GPL’d and we’re all happy.