Regards, Faheem
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:29:44 -0700
From: Charlotte Wickham <cwickham@gmail.com>
To: Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info>
Subject: Re: Debian enquiry about data files in munsell
I obtained real.dat from http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/online/munsell.php
which is a digitization of Table 1 in: S. M. NEWHALL, D. NICKERSON, and
D. B. JUDD. Final report of the o.s.a. subcommittee on the spacing of the
munsell colors. J. Opt. Soc. Am., 33(7):385–411, 07 1943.
It shouldn't be copyrighted for two reasons: (1) it's data, (2) it's
produced by employees of the federal govt, but I don't have any proof of
that.
I'm updating my package documentation to improve the description of the
source data.
Charlotte
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info> wrote:
Hi,
I've been (sort of) deputized by the Debian Med team, who are trying
to get munsell into Debian as r-cran-munsell. But they have hit a bit of a
hitch. The FTPmasters, who are Debian's gatekeepers, are wondering about
the data files in munsell.
You ship the file R/sysdata.rda which can be created from the text
file inst/raw/real.dat using inst/raw/getmunsellmap.R.
So, Debian wants to know where this data table inst/raw/real.dat
comes from, how it was created, and what the preferred way to modify it is.
There are a couple of issues here. First, I think it is simply a
question of what the license for inst/raw/real.dat is. Secondly, Debian
policy says that source files should be shipped in the preferred form for
modification.
But if necessary Charles or one of the other Debian Med people can
clarify.
Regards,
Faheem
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Charles Plessy wrote:
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 08:28:35 +0900
From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
To: Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-med@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and
get-orig-source target>
Le Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:00:25AM +0530, Faheem Mitha a écrit :
r-cran-scales is now in Debian, but r-cran-ggplot2 has not yet been
updated. I see that r-cran-scales is not installable, because it
depends on r-cran-munsell, which is not in Debian, at least not
currently on my mirror for amd64.
Hi Faheem,
r-cran-munsell was submitted to the Debian archive and is currently under
review.
http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/r-cran-munsell_0.4-1.html
However, it contains a binary file, 'sysdata.rda', that is data table in a
compressed format. The question is whether it is generated and refreshed
by the upstream author using a source file that is not distributed in the
source package. Such a work would not be Free according to our
principles.>
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2013-Aug
ust/021177.html>
In the newer upstream version 0.4.2, there is a script to generate
sysdata.rda from another file, real.dat, in text format. There is no
information on where this table comes from, how was it created, and what
is the preferred way to modify it.
If you had time to contact the upstream authors and get this point
clarified, that would be a tremendous help. In the meantime, it may be
difficult to update r-cran-ggplot2. I have asked for a temporary
exemption, but I did not receive an answer yet.
http://lists.debian.org/20130807233230.GA12437@falafel.plessy.net
Have a nice day,
PS: I had a quick look at corrmodel (but did not have time to test it),
and did not find obvious problems. For the package containing the R
scripts, it may not be necessary to name it according to the convention
for packaged R modules, since it is not a R module. By the way, is it a
software to study clonotypes ? I have a (much simpler) work on line at
http://clonotyper.branchable.com/
Cheers,