Hi,
I have a situation where I have some software I want to package for Debian. This software needs to use some biological data, but I was told by the website I got this data from that I could not redistribute it.
So, I suppose anyone using the software needs to download it. I'll provide a script to download the data, but if I want to build a Debian package containing that data, how should I do it?
Let's say I have the software source directory with a script in it which downloads the data files to a specific directory. When should this download happen? Should the user do it manually?
One possibility seems to be to use the get-orig-source target to download it, but I don't see a clean way to do this.
I construct the orig.tar.gz tarball from the upstream repository, and the data isn't part of that repository. Downloading the data separately from the repository as part of the get-orig-source script also does not seem like the right thing to do, since it is also not in the source directory.
I still don't have a license for those data files, but is that Ok if the package does not distribute it?
The response I got when asking for license information was IMGT ® data are publicly available on the IMGT® web site for academics for their own research, but they are not redistributed by users. Regards, Faheem