Hi Michael,
ich "backporting" means simply changing some license text I'd consider
it worth doing. Consider Ubuntu is deriving from current Debian before
next month and will end up with an illegal r-bioc-rtracklayer package.
If you did some heavy code changes I could understand your hesitation.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 01:16:42PM -0700, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> The license stuff was never changed in the release branch of Bioconductor.
> That all happened in the devel branch. Next month, with the Bioc release,
> the devel branch becomes the release branch, so I'm not sure it's worth
> back porting right now.
>
> Michael
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've realised that there is a new upstream release of rtracklayer
> > (1.30.2) but the files in question have not yet changed. I realised
> > that the description 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.
> >
> > It seems that the issue is settled but are there any other resources for
> > this statement than one of Jim's mails? I would like to refer to some
> > authoritative statement to close the bug report in the Debian BTS.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:55:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > > Le Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 08:37:36AM -0800, Jim Kent a écrit :
> > > > Actually though, looking at Mozilla Public LIcense, the only
> > differences I
> > > > don't care much about, so if it makes it easier, I can release it
> > under
> > > > that as well.
> > >
> > > Thanks Jim, I am sure it is helpful, not only for Bioconductor, but also
> > for
> > > any other project which would like to pick up the same files form the
> > UCSC
> > > browser sources. Designed years after the CDDL, the MPL 2.0 was
> > carefully
> > > worded to avoid ambiguities and incompatibilities (not just with the GNU
> > GPL,
> > > but also with the Apache License).
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Charles Plessy
> > > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
> > >
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