Re: readseq2 upstream unresponsive
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, olivier sallou wrote:
after several mails to upstream to clarify some license issue, I think we
will have to put readseq2 in non-free.
I didn't follow the previous discussion. Is it the file that is
available at: http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/molbio/readseq/java/
This contains two jar files without sources -> non-free
src/flybase/FastVector.java -> non-free
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
* and its documentation for NON-COMMERCIAL purposes and without
rez/readseq.css -> not distributable
* This software is the confidential and proprietary information
* of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You
* shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall use
* it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement
* you entered into with Sun.
... and I didn't look very closely.
There is still however a big issue is they include some code from an other
source, with author indication but no license information about it. So we
do not know under which license is this part of code.
In this case the author could be asked.
This may be a definitive stop from being in Debian (even non-free), right ?
The software must be at least distributable. In case there is no license,
every author has to agree by other means.
Thorsten
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