Dear EMBOSS developers, (CC Debian Med mailing list) while working on upgrading Debian's emboss package to version 6.4.0 (congratulations, by the way), I found some files in EMBOSS that are not considered ‘Free software’ by Debian. They were actually present in past releases as well. Here is their list:
test/data/amir.swiss test/data/uniprotft.sw test/swiss/seq.dat test/swnew/trembl.dat and emboss/data/dbxref.txt Their license is Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0), and it disallows modification of the files. The presence of these files in EMBOSS makes it impossible for Debian to redistribute it in our operating system. I have confirmed with the UniProt consortium's helpdesk that, even in isolation, these files are covered by the CC BY-ND license. I see three possible solutions. a) Remove the files in Debian's EMBOSS package. b) Distribute EMBOSS with the files, but in the non-free section of the Debian archive. c) Replace the files by Free equivalents, for instance by re-creating records from scratch. I am not very comfortable with any of the solutions, and was wondering if you would have suggestions ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list EMBOSS@lists.open-bio.org http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss