Bug#694908: Redistribution of Pathway ontology inside EMBOSS suite packaged for Debian
Dear Victoria, I am Charles Plessy from the Debian project, working with Andreas Tille on packaging and distributing software relevant to medecine and bioinformatics. Thank you for your answers about Pathway Ontology (PW) and sorry to bother you again. It would tremendously help us if we could have a confirmation that PW is released under the Creative Commons license 3.0, because in our experience, there are often misundersandings about what is meant by free. In particular, in Debian's point of view, it is necessary to allow a work to be sold in order to be called free. One of the reasons is that Debian is often distributed on DVDs that are sold, and that requires the right to commercially use each of the ~30,000 programs that we redistribute. The CC 3.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) would give us that right. Given that it already been adopted for other ontologies, in particular Gene Ontology, I hope that it would be possible for RGD to release PW under this license or a similarly free one. In that case, could you for instance drop a LICENSE file in ftp://rgd.mcw.edu/pub/data_release/ontology_obo_files/pathway/ or answer us at 694...@bugs.debian.org (where I have sent a carbon copy of this message). Many thanks for the time you are giving us, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#694908: Redistribution of Pathway ontology inside EMBOSS suite packaged for Debian
Hello Victoria, I hope you are fine and got my last mail. In case you might need some time for negotiating these licensing issues it would be really great to give us some confirmation that you are working on this. Any response from your side (or somebody else in charge for Pathway ontology) will be helpful. Kind regards Andreas. On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 01:44:58PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Hello Victoria, I'm writing you on the behalf of the Debian Med team which has included the EMBOSS suite into official Debian distribution. The EMBOSS suite does contain some files of the Pathway ontology and the site http://www.obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=pathway lists you as contact. So I hope is fine to contact you. Please note that I have put the according bug tracker e-mail to this mail which makes this mail publicly available. While we would finally need a public statement please make sure you drop this CC in case you prefer that your response is not publicly readable. By packaging the EMBOSS suite the Debian operating system is currently redistributing some files from Pathway ontology indirectly, because EMBOSS has included these since version 6.4 (http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/emboss). Debian considers copyrights and licenses very seriously, and our system only contains Free software, that is, materials that our users can freely use, modify and redistribute themselves. In addition to our system, we have a non-free archive in which, as a convenience for our users, we redistribute works that give less freedoms to our users. In order to evaluate if works containing Pathway ontology files can at least be distributed in our non-free area, I would like to know if Pathway ontology is available under other terms of use or licenses, that allow redistributing Evidence codes ontology files. You might even like to follow the Gene Ontology Consortium that has put its database under a Creative Commons BY (Attribution 3.0 Unported) license[1]. Kind regards and thanks for providing Pathway ontology Andreas. [1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/jira/browse/GOHELP-147 -- http://fam-tille.de - End forwarded message - -- http://fam-tille.de -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#694908: Redistribution of Pathway ontology inside EMBOSS suite packaged for Debian
Hello Victoria, I'm writing you on the behalf of the Debian Med team which has included the EMBOSS suite into official Debian distribution. The EMBOSS suite does contain some files of the Pathway ontology and the site http://www.obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=pathway lists you as contact. So I hope is fine to contact you. Please note that I have put the according bug tracker e-mail to this mail which makes this mail publicly available. While we would finally need a public statement please make sure you drop this CC in case you prefer that your response is not publicly readable. By packaging the EMBOSS suite the Debian operating system is currently redistributing some files from Pathway ontology indirectly, because EMBOSS has included these since version 6.4 (http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/emboss). Debian considers copyrights and licenses very seriously, and our system only contains Free software, that is, materials that our users can freely use, modify and redistribute themselves. In addition to our system, we have a non-free archive in which, as a convenience for our users, we redistribute works that give less freedoms to our users. In order to evaluate if works containing Pathway ontology files can at least be distributed in our non-free area, I would like to know if Pathway ontology is available under other terms of use or licenses, that allow redistributing Evidence codes ontology files. You might even like to follow the Gene Ontology Consortium that has put its database under a Creative Commons BY (Attribution 3.0 Unported) license[1]. Kind regards and thanks for providing Pathway ontology Andreas. [1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/jira/browse/GOHELP-147 -- http://fam-tille.de - End forwarded message - -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
