James Malone, maintainer of The Software Ontology has given permission to publish his mail in our BTS as reference.
----- Forwarded message from James Malone <mal...@ebi.ac.uk> ----- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:34:47 +0000 From: James Malone <mal...@ebi.ac.uk> To: Andreas Tille <ti...@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: Redistribution of The Software Ontology Andreas, Hello, This is not very clear so apologies, I should really add this somewhere. The ontologies are produced under the Apache license here: http://opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php I think this should satisfy your requirements for distribution but if you have any questions please do let me know. Best, James On 09/01/2013 13:23, Andreas Tille wrote: > 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 -- Blog: http://jamesmaloneebi.blogspot.co.uk/ European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom Tel: + 44 (0) 1223 494 676 Fax: + 44 (0) 1223 494 468 ----- 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
