Re: question about packaging nonfree software

2011-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:37:19AM +0100, George Marselis wrote: > hm. i need to read then on the requirements for Debian non-free... You can also send us a copy of the license. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian

Re: question about packaging nonfree software

2011-04-16 Thread George Marselis
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Hi George, Hello! > To upload into Debian non-free, someone would > need to be really interested in having it there.  Otherwise, if it > is not even satisfying requirements for Debian non-free, I guess there > is nothing to discuss unf

Re: question about packaging nonfree software

2011-04-15 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi George, I bet higher authorities of debian-med would chime in later on, but let me comment on: nonfree != non-free ;) i.e. depending on what is non free in newbler it might or might not be even considered for upload into non-free (not officially supported by Debian) suite of Debian. To uploa

question about packaging nonfree software

2011-04-15 Thread George Marselis
Hey guys, As you all know, a lot of bioinformatics programs come in nonfree packaging. Newbler comes easily to mind. What is the policy for including software in debian-med? I mean, free software uber alles, yes, but some people will just not release the software under the gpl. what then? For exa