On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Faheem Mitha wrote: > 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?
Maybe studying other download-and-package packages, like "java-package", can help. In your case, apparently you can automate the "get the data file" part, which java-package is forbidden to do. > 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? Manually is good. > I still don't have a license for those data files, but is that Ok if > the package does not distribute it? Probably yes, but it is safer for everybody if the source of the datafile publishes a license with its terms of use/distribution. > 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. Check the website for a proper "terms of use" page and use it as the license... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130919231007.ga19...@khazad-dum.debian.net
