Dear ARB/SILVA team, I am writing to inquire about a special case regarding your data licensing terms. I am involved with the Debian Med project (https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/), whose goal it is to provide software from the medical and bioinformatics fields to users of the Debian Linux distribution. Currently I am working on packaging a piece of free (GPL) software for prediction of rRNA genes in sequences. This software requires (and would be bundled with) a set of nucleotide profile HMMs (built with HMMER) based on several individual data sources. One of the data sources used to build these HMMs was the file LSURef_115_tax_silva_full_align_trunc.fasta, available from your database. Since your licensing terms (http://www.arb-silva.de/silva-license-information/) are not clear about how derivatives of your data are to be licensed, I would like to ask whether it would be OK for us to package and redistribute these HMMs under a free license, for both academic and non-academic users. I wish to make it clear here that the original file LSURef_115_tax_silva_full_align_trunc.fasta will NOT be included in the package, only HMMs built from it (and other free sources).
I am looking forward to your response. Best regards Sascha Steinbiss -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
