Hi Chris, 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 OBO Relation Ontology. I failed to find any licensing or contact information at
http://obofoundry.org/ro/ but I noticed that you are the maintainer of this page and you might at least be able to forward this request. 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 OBO Relation Ontology indirectly, because EMBOSS has included these since 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 OBO Relation Ontology files can at least be distributed in our "non-free" area, I would like to know if Pathway ontology is available under other terms of use or licenses, that allow redistributing OBO Relation 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 OBO Relation Ontology Andreas. [1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/jira/browse/GOHELP-147 -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
