On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:06 PM Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Michael, > > BTW, I have "stolen" your work (stolen in a sense that I took over your > changelog entry since I needed to sign it and since beeing in a hurry I > completely forgot the option to use -k - if you mind I'll remove the > current upload and re-upload with your ID) and uploaded to Debian Med > PPA. May be we need to remove from PPA anyway - due to the licensing > issues and I simply was to quick (should not work in a hurry :-(). > No worries. Out of an abundance of caution I scheduled the package for deletion from the PPA (but see below for more on the subject) Re: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/prokka.git/commit/?id=91b39ca656f979b3c2c704d8756d9e04e54ae5f9 `prokka-tigrfams_to_hmm` & `prokka-make_tarball` are not for end users which is why I didn't ship them. > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 05:56:18PM +0000, Michael Crusoe wrote: > > Looks like my CC's to the mailing list didn't make it before. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > From: Michael R. Crusoe <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:36 PM > > Subject: Re: Prokka Debian package? > > To: Torsten Seemann <[email protected]> > > Cc: Debian Med Project List <[email protected]> > > > > > > [looping in the Debian Med team] > > > > On Fri Feb 13 2015 at 10:46:27 PM Torsten Seemann < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have to list the copyright & license for each file. Here is what I > > >> figured out so far: > > >> > > > > > > > > >> Files: db/hmm/HAMAP.hmm > > >> Copyright: the UniProt Consortium > > >> License: CC-BY-ND > > >> > > > > > My understanding is that the CC-BY-ND licence would prevent Debian from > > legally redistributing this file. > > A quick search uncovers a relevant thread[1] > > > > However I can still ship the original files plus your prokka-hamap_to_hmm > > script and regenerate it at install time. > > > > Alas the package will not be allowed in Debian main but is allowed in > > 'non-free' (or I could split it into a data package in non-free and your > > scripts in 'contrib') > > Something like this. If I understood debian/copyright correctly not all > data sets are CC-BY-ND. 5 of the 8 datasets are CC-BY-ND by my count. > Am I understanding things correctly that the > code might serve some purpose with a free subset of data and could be > enhanced by other data in non-free + downloaded data? > No, the code is useless without the non-free data :-/ They take quite a while to generate and the distribution of them is a big time saver. > > Has anybody contacted the copyright holders of the data in question? > Upon review of http://www.uniprot.org/help/license I think we may be in the clear. CC-BY-NC covers the design and organizational structure of the databases in question but facts of nature (the protein sequences) are uncopyrightable. Does that hold up for you? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2013/08/msg00012.html > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
