I think "illegal" is a pretty strong word. The changes only clarified the legality. It was never illegal.
I went ahead and made the change in the release branch. Expect it as version 1.20.3. Michael On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Debian-med-packaging mailing list > > > > debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > > > > > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-packaging > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://fam-tille.de > > > > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >
