Hello Michelle, I'm writing you on the behalf of the Debian Med team which has included the EMBOSS suite into official Debian distribution. The EMBOSS suite does contain some files of the Evidence codes ontology and the site
http://www.obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=evidence_code lists you as contact. So I hope is fine to contact you. Please note that I have put the according bug tracker e-mail to this mail which makes this mail publicly available. While we would finally need a public statement please make sure you drop this CC in case you prefer that your response is not publicly readable. By packaging the EMBOSS suite the Debian operating system is currently redistributing some files from Evidence codes ontology indirectly, which incorporates some Evidence codes ontology files since its version 6.4 (http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/emboss). Debian considers copyrights and licenses very seriously, and our system only contains Free software, that is, materials that our users can freely use, modify and redistribute themselves. In addition to our system, we have a "non-free" archive in which, as a convenience for our users, we redistribute works that give less freedoms to our users. In order to evaluate if works containing Evidence codes ontology files can at least be distributed in our "non-free" area, I would like to know if Evidence codes ontology is available under other terms of use or licenses, that allow redistributing Evidence codes ontology files. You might even like to follow the Gene Ontology Consortium that has put its database under a Creative Commons BY (Attribution 3.0 Unported) license[1]. Kind regards and thanks for providing Evidence codes Andreas. [1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/jira/browse/GOHELP-147 -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
