----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: Julien Cristau Gesendet: 29.12.12 18:46 Uhr An: Charles Plessy, 694...@bugs.debian.org Betreff: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#694908: Contains non-free data
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 09:39:14 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Package: emboss > Version: 6.4.0-4 > Severity: serious > > As discussed in the following message, EMBOSS contains non-free data. > > https://lists.debian.org/20120918045219.ga26...@falafel.plessy.net > > We need to consider short- and long-term solutions to this problem. For the > short-term solution, I think that I will not have time to split free and > non-free parts of EMBOSS, so we need again to consider to move it altogether to > non-free. In contrary to the UniProt files which were in the test suite, the > Gene Ontology files are needed by EMBOSS to run some of its programs. > Does that mean emboss and embassy-* need to be removed from wheezy? The GO license I read as "scientific integrity". Yes, as a consequence you cannot modify the database at will or it is not GO any more and you cite it where you use it. IIRC some two GO terms or so I had at some point suggested myself, so changes _can_ be made and one is even helped to get it done consistently. For other views on the world, have all the freedom of the world to start your own ontologies, and many are doing so. In my mind, having it all shipping together is just fine enough for Wheezy. A hard core alternative would be to substitute it with a mockup GO with the only entries explaining how to install the real thing. One could also just remove the database and see a few tools fail. To me, it is a small side issue and I suggest to demote the bug from Serious to Wishlist. Steffen
