[Debian-med-packaging] Comments regarding qiime_1.2.1-1_amd64.changes

[Steffen Möller]

On 04/19/2011 04:12 PM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Am 11.04.2011 16:01, schrieb Tim Booth:
>
>>> ... we will look at it. There is a new upload due, which sounds
>>> like a good opportunity for a license check. Many additional
>>> dependencies are coming in, which may also mean that other non-free
>>> bits are among them, I am just not too optimistic at the very
>>> moment for a move to main.
>> Just now I think UClust is the big one, as it is a key dependency.  The
>> latest UClust is commercial (limited no-cost version available to
>> academics) but then there is a special forked version for Qiime that is
>> specifically licensed "only for use in PyNAST and Qiime".
>>
>> http://www.drive5.com/uclust/downloads1_2_21q.html
>>
>> Ie, most decidedly not FOSS!
>>
>> I'm still working through the dependencies myself, so will note what I
>> find in the Copyright files and contact authors if need be.
> So, to summarize all up:  Shall we accept your package for now to
> contrib, or should we reject it, and you ping as with your new upload,
> so we can fast track your package then?
It is contrib. I had forgotten about uclust. Many thanks to Tim

and to you

Steffen