Re: [EMBOSS] Files included in EMBOSS but licensed ...

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 02:15:42PM +0200, Steffen Möller a écrit :
> 
> Charles, we can have the data in non-free but the rest of Ensembl
> in main - with the functional separation by omitting the tests,
> it would truly be main, not contrib. So we would just add a
> package ensembl-data-non-free and move it all over there that
> could be interpreted as problematic.

Hi Steffen and Andreas,

let's imagine the following:

 - I start from a full local copy of the EMBOSS sources.
 - I build the emboss package and test it with the non-free test data.
 - Pleased that the regression tests give a green light, I upload a ‘free’
   emboss Debian package that do not include the regression tests.

How can I pretend that the uploaded package is more free, if I have used the
non-free tests before uploading ?

How could I decline running the full regression tests before redistributing
EMBOSS to our users ?

Also, I have not yet investigated the part about Gene Ontology that was
mentionned by Peter Rice.  Removing all the extract of non-free databases may
be difficult.

I do not see much of a burden to have the package in non-free.  For instance,
seaview was moved to non-free after it incorporated a small part of Phylip, and
nobody complained about this.

Perhaps we could have a med-non-free meta package in non-free ?

Have a nice week-end,

-- 
Charles