Re: Packaging NGS QC Toolkit for Debian
Dear Mukesh,
thanks for your straight response.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 06:45:06PM +0530, Mukesh Jain wrote:
> Dear Andreas,
>
> Many thanks for your e-mail and interest in our toolkit. My response to
> your queries is given below.
>
> 1. The http://www.nipgr.res.in/ngsqctoolkit.html page defines an HTML frame
> which in turn calls and loads the toolkit page from
> http://59.163.192.90:8080/ngsqctoolkit/. Therefore when you access the
> former weblink through web browser it loads the toolkit page and works
> perfectly fine, but when you try to download the page using former weblink
> you will get only the page with HTML frame. Currently, we are not in
> position to change this settings. It would be great if you could use the
> latter weblink for your project instead.
OK, this does not cause any trouble for us regarding packaging. I just
thought that it might confuse users.
> 2. The manual already has "Terms of Use".
Ahh, thanks for the hint. I'd recommend to add a plain text file
COPYING or something like this into the download tarball to make it more
easy to find. I have checked the license which says:
NGS QC Toolkit has been developed at National Institute of Plant Genome Research,
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi – 110067, India. All rights about the toolkit are reserved to
National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi – 110067,
India.
.
NGS QC Toolkit is a free and open source software toolkit, and distributed in the hope
that it will be useful. In no event will NIPGR be liable to you for damage, including any
general, special, consequential or incidental damage arising out of the use, modification or
inability to use the program (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered
inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the program to operate
with any other programs). NGS QC Toolkit can be used, redistributed and/or modified freely
for non-commercial purposes subject to the original source is properly cited.
.
THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
.
Use of this toolkit is taken as an agreement to these terms of usage.
In the second paragraph you are restricting the use of the software to
non-commercial purposes. While this is a frequently used restriction in
scientific software from a Debian point of view it is a discrimination
of for-profit use and and discrimination is per definition non-free
(since it does not fit the Open Source definition [1]). Do you see any
chance to drop this restriction and for instance use some standard
license like GPL, BSD, MPL etc? This would enable us to distribute
ngsqctoolkit with main Debian.
> 3. The source (i.e. Windows Word page) can be found the following link if
> that works for them.
> http://59.163.192.90:8080/ngsqctoolkit/NGSQCToolkitv2.3.3_manual.doc
Nice, we will include a copy of this file into the package to fullfill
the requirement of having the source.
> I hope it answers your queries.
It did ... and opened a new one about the license. :-)
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
--> see paragraph 5
> Best
> Mukesh
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mukesh Jain,
> >
> > I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which tries to include
> > any free software in biology and medicine into main Debian. I stumbled
> > upon your NGS QC Toolkit which seems to fit nicely into the biology task
> > of Debian Med[1]. When trying to create a Debian package I stumbled upon
> > the following issues:
> >
> > 1. On your website[2] you are linking to
> > http://www.nipgr.res.in/ngsqctoolkit.html
> > Unfortunately this resolves only to an empty page. When doing
> > a web search the toolkit can be found here:
> > http://59.163.192.90:8080/ngsqctoolkit/
> > Most probably some DNS is broken and I'd suggest to sort this
> > out with your local admins to make sure the toolkot can be found
> > by interested people.
> >
> > 2. Neither at the website nor in the downloadable code or
> > documentation I can find some licensing statement that would
> > define the conditions people can use the code. This is considered
> > as non-free by Debian. It would be really great if you would
> > consider to use a free license (for instance GPL or BSD) for
> > the code of NGS QC Toolkit
> >
> > 3. There is a file NGSQCToolkitv2.3.3_manual.pdf inside the
> > download tarball. Would you be able to provide the source of
> > this file as well? It does not look like created using LaTeX
> > but some editable format (like ODF) would be great. Otherwise
> > we would need to strip this documentation from the Debian package.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> > [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
> > [2] http://nipgr.res.in/research/dr_mjain.php
> >
> > --
> > http://fam-tille.de
> >
>
>
>
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> National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR)
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