Re: pychopper has switched to a non-free license in new upstream version

2023-06-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi,

Am Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 12:44:51PM +0200 schrieb Michael R. Crusoe:
> That's a shame. The 2.7.3 release (which is quite small) is still under the
> original license
> 
> https://github.com/epi2me-labs/pychopper/compare/v2.7.2...v2.7.3
> https://github.com/epi2me-labs/pychopper/releases/tag/v2.7.3
> 
> > '''
> > 1.10. "Research Purposes" means use for internal research and not intended
> > for or directed towards commercial advantages or monetary compensation;
> > provided, however, that monetary compensation does not include sponsored
> > research of research funded by grants.
> > '''

What about opening an upstream to the consequence that this change of
the license will remove the package from Debian.

At the bottom of our libieration page[1] there is a nice link to some
upstream opinion.

Kind regards
Andreas.


[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/SoftwareLiberation

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Re: pychopper has switched to a non-free license in new upstream version

2023-06-16 Thread Michael R. Crusoe
That's a shame. The 2.7.3 release (which is quite small) is still under the
original license

https://github.com/epi2me-labs/pychopper/compare/v2.7.2...v2.7.3
https://github.com/epi2me-labs/pychopper/releases/tag/v2.7.3

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 5:54 PM Nilesh Patra 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm dropping this mail to draw the attention of anyone who's interested in
> updating pychopper.
> While going through the list of outdated packages, I found pychopper as a
> candidate. Unfortunately
> upstream seems to have modified the license in a way that makes in
> non-dfsg compliant.
> In the commit
>
>
> https://github.com/epi2me-labs/pychopper/commit/445bde1611ae2024c50f87e89dfe8c53bc039a32
>
> It says:
>
> '''
> 1.10. "Research Purposes" means use for internal research and not intended
> for or directed towards commercial advantages or monetary compensation;
> provided, however, that monetary compensation does not include sponsored
> research of research funded by grants.
> '''
>
> Best,
> Nilesh
>
>