Hi Martin,
thanks for your quick reply. I'll contact Jim and will keep you in CC.
(Please also excuse the term "stolen" which might have been a bit sloppy
in this context.)
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 08:50:53PM +0000, Morgan, Martin wrote:
> Hi Andreas --
>
> I spoke with Michael Lawrence, who is listed as the package maintainer in the
> DESCRIPTION file, about this.
>
> The package was written before R had formalized ways of documenting multiple
> licenses, and the DESCRIPTION file says
>
> ExtraLicenses: The files in the 'src/ucsc' directory are licensed for all
> use by Jim Kent, in a manner compatible with the Artistic 2.0 license.
>
> Michael has updated the package to follow R convention, with a License: tag
> that mentions Artistic-2.0 + file LICENSE, and the LICENSE file indicates the
> code and Kent's licensing text mentioned below. The commit is at
>
>
> https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror/rtracklayer/commit/8d3505b31b7848af7cd9f9d930165c7beec93a8f
>
> Since you know the licensing constraints under which packages are allowed in
> your project, please feel free to contact Jim Kent directly; Michael will be
> happy to make any subsequent changes to rtracklayer.
>
> Also, please note that the src/ucsc/* is NOT 'stolen', and that the 'meat' of
> the rtracklayer package extends considerably beyond Kent's (very valuable)
> code.
>
> Best,
>
> Martin Morgan
> Bioconductor
> ________________________________________
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> [devteam-bioc-boun...@lists.fhcrc.org] on behalf of Maintainer
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> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 12:56 PM
> To: Bioconductor Package Maintainer; 807...@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [devteam-bioc] Bug#807580: r-bioc-rtracklayer: src/ucsc/* is
> stolen from another project with non-DFSG free license
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I'm hereby forwarding this issue to the BioConductors list. Hopefully
> this can be clarified by possibly some outdated licensing information.
> If not we should probably contact the authors whether they might be
> consider a free license as we did with other projects in the past.
> Otherwise we would loose quite a chain of depencencies of BioConductor
> packages.
>
> Thanks for spotting this
>
> Andreas.
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 06:08:44AM -0800, Michael R. Crusoe wrote:
> > Package: r-bioc-rtracklayer
> > Version: 1.30.1-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > I am sorry to report that I have recently discovered that the meat of this
> > package is not under the Artistic-2.0 license as one might guess, but it
> > from
> > another source with a non-DFSG license.
> >
> > src/ucsc/* is cobbled together from src/lib/*, src/inc/*, and src/utils/*
> > from
> > http://genome-source.cse.ucsc.edu/gitweb/?p=kent.git;a=tree;f=src;h=5c83e0e5dd23c4a1cbe330db3be7dc7fe72c8251;hb=HEAD
> >
> > The license for that project is: "All files are copyrighted, but license is
> > hereby granted for personal, academic, and non-profit use. A license is
> > also
> > granted for the contents of the src/lib, src/inc and src/utils and python
> > directories for commercial users."
> > http://genome-source.cse.ucsc.edu/gitweb/?p=kent.git;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD
> >
> > This license mail fail the DFSG guidelines. It doesn't explicitly permit
> > derived works and it does not automatically apply to redistributions.
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: stretch/sid
> > APT prefers unstable
> > APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> >
> > Versions of packages r-bioc-rtracklayer depends on:
> > ii libc6 2.21-3
> > ii r-base-core [r-api-3] 3.2.2.20151203-1
> > ii r-bioc-genomicalignments 1.6.1-1
> > ii r-cran-rcurl 1.95-4.7-1
> > ii r-cran-xml 3.98-1.3-1
> > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
> >
> > r-bioc-rtracklayer recommends no packages.
> >
> > r-bioc-rtracklayer suggests no packages.
> >
> > -- no debconf information
> >
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