Re: Bug#656573: RM: freediams -- ROM; Non-free data used in package
Hi Sebastian,
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 09:58:42AM +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > it turned out that the database which is used in freediams (file
> > global_resources/databases/drugs/master.db) is a compilation of data
> > with different licenses. Some of the original data have non-free or
> > unclear licenses. After a discussion on the Debian Med mailing list it
> > turned out that the problem is not easily solvable by providing a
> > reduced dataset with exclusively free data and thus it seems to be the
> > best idea to remove freediams for the moment from Debian until this
> > issue is clarified.
>
> Very sad to see this happening. For healthcare's sake I hope this can be
> reintroduced soon somehow.
Well, I suggested several times a possible solution, last time I
explained my suggestion here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/01/msg00195.html
You know, it's Free Software - just find (pay?) somebody who implements
the suggestion and provides the code with a stripped down database to
the free parts and makes other data available by other ways of
distribution. Should be about half a day of coding maximum for a C++
programmer and needs some understanding of the process in which
master.db was created including carefully checking the licenses (another
two days?).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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