[med-svn] r12667 - trunk/packages/cdbfasta/trunk/debian

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2012-12-17 20:34:58 +0000 (Mon, 17 Dec 2012)
New Revision: 12667

Modified:
   trunk/packages/cdbfasta/trunk/debian/copyright
Log:
Finally found a valid e-mail address and got response that the package software is public domain


Modified: trunk/packages/cdbfasta/trunk/debian/copyright
===================================================================
--- trunk/packages/cdbfasta/trunk/debian/copyright	2012-12-17 16:39:08 UTC (rev 12666)
+++ trunk/packages/cdbfasta/trunk/debian/copyright	2012-12-17 20:34:58 UTC (rev 12667)
@@ -1,34 +1,30 @@
 Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
 Upstream-Name: cdbfasta
-Upstream-Contact: Geo Pertea <geopartea at sourceforge.net>,
-                  Gene Indices Group <valduboisvert at sourceforge.net>
-Comment: Both addresses are bouncing when trying to contact via
-         https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/12/msg00054.html
- .
- Also tried Geo Pertea <gpertea at tigr.org> but failed as well
+Upstream-Contact: Geo Pertea <geo.pertea at gmail.com>,
 Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdbfasta/files/
 
-Copyright: © 2002-2010 Geo Pertea <geopartea at sourceforge.net>,
-                       Gene Indices Group <valduboisvert at sourceforge.net>
-                       The Institute for Genomic Research, 
-                       This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
-License: some_unspecified_OSI_license
- No real license but the homepage claims the following:
+Copyright: © 2002-2010 Geo Pertea <geo.pertea at gmail.com>,
+                       Valentin Antonescu <valduboisvert at yahoo.com>
+                       The Institute for Genomic Research
+License: PD
+ Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:26:54 -0500
+ From: Geo <geo.pertea at gmail.com>
+ To: andreas at an3as.eu
+ CC: valentin antonescu <valduboisvert at yahoo.com>
+ Subject: Re: Fwd: Please forward to Geo Pertea: What exat license for cdbfasta?
  .
- About Open Source:
+ Hi Andreas,
+ I don't think about the licensing issue much and this may be related to 
+ the fact that the cdbfasta code if heavily based on Daniel J. Bernstein 
+ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein>'s cdb source code 
+ which has been notably license-free 
+ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License-free_software>. However, since DJB 
+ released his individual source code files to public domain we also 
+ consider the whole cdbfasta code to be public domain,  free and open 
+ source software.
  .
- Of benefit to users, Open Source software is licensed so you can
- download and use the software free-of-charge. The source code for this
- software is made available free-of-charge, you (or a programmer you
- hire) can make changes to this software to better meet your needs, and
- you can release your changed code back to the community passing the
- benefit on to other users.
- .
- The exact license terms used by this project on their project summary
- page and in the licensing documents included in their downloads. 
- .
- ... unfortunately non of the both links from the last paragraph is
- featuring a license statement -> so we need to ask the authors
+ Thanks,
+ --geo
 
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