Dear Andreas, Thank you for your enquiry and interest in providing ChEBI within the EMBOSS package. ChEBI is provided as completely open and free data, which means that we do not restrict our users from copying, modifying and/or redistributing for any purpose whatsoever. Therefore, we are happy for you to provide ChEBI data within your free area. We will update our website to reflect accordingly.
Thanks and best wishes, Janna -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 07 January 2013 13:13 To: [email protected] Subject: EBI HELP: ChEBI Hello, I'm writing you on the behalf of the Debian Med team which has included the EMBOSS suite into official Debian distribution. I found on the page https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/aboutChebiForward.do the statement that the database is free. However, I have not found an explicit right to redistribute the data. The Debian operating system is currently redistributing some files from ChEBI indirectly, as we redistribute the EMBOSS package, which incorporates some ChEBI files since its version 6.4 (http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/emboss). Debian considers copyrights and licenses very seriously, and our system only contains Free software, that is, materials that our users can freely use, modify and redistribute themselves. In addition to our system, we have a "non-free" archive in which, as a convenience for our users, we redistribute works that give less freedoms to our users. In order to evaluate if works containing ChEBI files can at least be distributed in our "non-free" area, I would like to know if ChEBI is available under other terms of use or licenses, that allow redistributing ChEBI files. Please note: If you might like to apply a more detailed license including redistribution statement it would be great if you could post this in public to the Debian Med mailing list <[email protected]>. Kind regards and thanks for providing ChEBI Andreas. _______________________________________________ chebi-help mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.ebi.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/chebi-help -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
