Re: question about packaging nonfree software

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

Hi George,

I bet higher authorities of debian-med would chime in later on, but let
me comment on:

nonfree != non-free ;)

i.e. depending on what is non free in newbler it might or might not be
even considered for upload into non-free (not officially supported by
Debian) suite of Debian.  To upload into Debian non-free, someone would
need to be really interested in having it there.  Otherwise, if it
is not even satisfying requirements for Debian non-free, I guess there
is nothing to discuss unfortunately.

Cheers,

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, George Marselis wrote:

> Hey guys,

> As you all know, a lot of bioinformatics programs come in nonfree
> packaging. Newbler comes easily to mind.

> What is the policy for including software in debian-med? I mean, free
> software uber alles, yes, but some people will just not release the
> software under the gpl. what then? For example, I have a copy of the
> source of newbler 2.3 and 2.5. I would love to have a package for
> newbler.

> What would be the recommended course of action for a nonfree program
> that I would like to include into debian-med?
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