Hi Janna, thanks for your quick and very helpful response. I added the following notice to the according copyright file of the Debian EMBOSS package:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/emboss.git;a=commitdiff;h=b60238c3eeb7a650bfeddeb7a276980e68af0bdd We need to sort out other data sets but this one was one of the steps we needed to do to fix http://bugs.debian.org/694908 Thanks for providing ChEBI as free data Andreas. On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:19:22AM -0000, Janna Hastings wrote: > Dear Andreas, > > Thank you for your enquiry and interest in providing ChEBI within the EMBOSS > package. ChEBI is provided as completely open and free data, which means > that we do not restrict our users from copying, modifying and/or > redistributing for any purpose whatsoever. Therefore, we are happy for you > to provide ChEBI data within your free area. We will update our website to > reflect accordingly. > > Thanks and best wishes, > Janna > > -----Original Message----- > From: chebi-help-boun...@ebi.ac.uk [mailto:chebi-help-boun...@ebi.ac.uk] On > Behalf Of ti...@debian.org > Sent: 07 January 2013 13:13 > To: chebi-h...@ebi.ac.uk > Subject: EBI HELP: ChEBI > > Hello, > I'm writing you on the behalf of the Debian Med team which has included the > EMBOSS suite into official Debian distribution. > > I found on the page https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/aboutChebiForward.do the > statement that the database is free. However, I have not found an explicit > right to redistribute the data. > > The Debian operating system is currently redistributing some files from > ChEBI indirectly, as we redistribute the EMBOSS package, which incorporates > some ChEBI files since its 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 ChEBI files can at least be > distributed in our "non-free" area, I would like to know if ChEBI is > available under other terms of use or licenses, that allow redistributing > ChEBI files. > > Please note: If you might like to apply a more detailed license including > redistribution statement it would be great if you could post this in public > to the Debian Med mailing list <debian-...@lists.debian.org>. > > Kind regards and thanks for providing ChEBI > Andreas. > _______________________________________________ > chebi-help mailing list > chebi-h...@ebi.ac.uk > http://listserver.ebi.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/chebi-help > > -- 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
