Re: Too many hands on MultiQC Fwd: Bug#925304: Acknowledgement (ITP: multiqc -- output gathering for RNA sequencing across tools and samples)

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hi Dylan,

On 23.03.19 08:13, Dylan Aïssi wrote:
> Hi Andreas, hi Steffen,
>
> Unfortunately, MultiQC is not DFSG compatible because its main
> component is Highcharts (CC BY-NC 3.0).
>   https://github.com/ewels/MultiQC/issues/800
>
> But this tool is very useful, so maybe we can push it in non-free.
>
> Best,
> Dylan
That escaped me. Many thanks. And, amazingly, we apparently had even
more hands at the package than we thought.

I did not find the current license. No idea of highcharts.js is
redistributable. Maybe we can change the code to include it online from
https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js and have everything in
contrib? I don't exactly know how multiqc works, but if it works without
needing highcharts for generating the reports, and only the addressee of
the generated pages needs to be online to experience the report, then it
is contrib, not non-free, right?

It is a nice library, though.

Best,

Steffen