Just to keep track of the activity regarding this bug I'm forewarding the text I've send to the author of the Software Ontology
http://theswo.sourceforge.net/ via Sourceforge webform. This is the last database to clarify in this bug report - now waiting for news from the authors. Kind regards Andreas. ----- Forwarded message from Andreas Tille <ti...@users.sourceforge.net> ----- Hello James, 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 Software Ontology inside your according Sourceforge project. By packaging the EMBOSS suite the Debian operating system is currently redistributing some files from The Software 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 The Software Ontology files can at least be distributed in our \"non-free\" area, I would like to know if The Software Ontology is available under other terms of use or licenses, that allow redistributing Software 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 Software Ontology Andreas. [1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/jira/browse/GOHELP-147 -- This message was sent to your SourceForge.net email alias via the web mail form. You may reply to this message directly, or via https://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.php?touser=93990 To update your email alias preferences, please visit https://sourceforge.net/account ----- End forwarded message ----- -- 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
