Re: Bug#662513: RM: emboss/6.3.1-6
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,
>
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