Re: Licensing terms for data derived from ARB/SILVA data
On 11/29/2014 12:29 PM, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>>> But we would like to ask you to clearly indicate that the profiles are
>>> only free for non-commercial usage, commercial users need a licence.
>>> The easiest approach is to add a reference to the SILVA terms of
>>> license assigned to the software/profile.
>> Argghh! this will prevent from being in free section. And I suppose
>> those profiles are mandary for software usage ?
> To ensure that the Debian version and the upstream version produce the
> same results, yes, they are necessary. I guess there are two choices now:
>
> 1. Put barrnap in non-free. What consequences would that have for a
> 'regular' academic user -- they would have to enable non-free on a
> default install, right?
Yeap, they need to add non-free to apt sources
>
> 2. Use an alternative set of pHMMs in the Debian version of barrnap,
> only including those which are built from Rfam alignments only (Rfam
> has a free license (CC0)). However, that would strongly limit the
> functionality of barrnap as whole rRNA families could end up
> being missing from the output of the dfsg compliant version.
>
> I guess to have a usable barrnap version, 1. is the only viable
> solution. Any comments?
I agree
> Thanks
> Sascha
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