Le 3/5/12 1:25 PM, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:51:35AM +0000, Tim Booth a écrit : >> I'll be up at the EBI in a couple of weeks. Is there anything I can do >> to try and persuade them to grant an acceptable license or has this >> already been tried? EMBOSS is a software package that I still consider >> to be very important, even though development is currently stalled due >> to lack of funding. > Hi Tim, > > The non-free file is a Uniprot record in the test suite, so the EMBOSS > developers can not re-license it. Actually, I am wondering if, in isolation > from the whole UniProt database, a single record is copyrightable, since it is > only the reproduction of facts. In that case, we could simply ignore its > license. I have asked Debian's FTP team their opinion on that matter. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/03/msg00010.html > > Among the other options, there is the removal of the file from the package. > This is something I dislike, as it is extra work for no extra freedom. > > The conceptual problem is that the purpose of that file is to test that EMBOSS > properly parses UniProt records, so it is obviously impossible to replace. > > The other problem is that other packages, for instance BioPerl, also contain > UniProt records in their test suite. This is a nightmare that I find very > demotivating. > > Please give my best regards to the EMBOSS developers. I think that the best > they can do is to lobby UniProt to release test data in the public domain, > or to relicense their whole database under a free license. All illogical > it may sound, we need the permission to modify the protein sequences against > scientific evidence, even if we do not plan to ever do it. > > By the way: one of the reasons I have not updated emboss is also that I am > stuck with other packaging works, in particular libsnappy-java where I have > reached my level of incompetence (http://bugs.debian.org/636181). I have > already wasted some time from Andreas and Java developers, but I think that > the > only way out would be that somebody takes the work over entirely. We need > libsnappy-java to update the picard-tools. Regarding libsnappy, what is your problem ? When I have time I may have a look if you want to. Code is in SVN of Java team?
Olivier > Lastly, the request I made was to remove emboss from Testing, but this is not > a > request for removal from Debian, and I really aim at shipping an up-to-date > EMBOSS in Wheezy. > > Cheers, > -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f54b583.8040...@irisa.fr
