[Debian-med-packaging] Comments regarding mothur_1.15.0-1_amd64.changes

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

Charles, thanks for your work.  I'll upload immediately to finally solve
this issue.

Kind regards

      Andreas.


On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:12:02PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:03:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > 
> > any volunteer to clarify this?
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 07:45:11PM +0000, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > > 
> > > according to debian/copyright, mothur is released under GPL-2+.  This
> > > information is however not mentioned anywhere in the upstream tarball (in fact
> > > the GPL is mentioned just in a single message in mothur.cpp).  Please document
> > > where you take your license information from in case it is not included in the
> > > tarball.
> > > 
> > > In addition several files are released under BSD-like licenses.  Please
> > > document this and include the copyright holder of these files as well.
> 
> Dear Ansgar,
> 
> I have proofread the copyright notices and licenses of Mothur.
> 
>  - In later versions, a LICENSE file indicates the GPL version 3, and this is confirmed
>    in the upstream website: http://www.mothur.org/wiki/Mothur_license
> 
>  - I added to debian/copyright the files derived from the Clearcut software,
>    released under a BSD-derived license.
> 
>  - I also added to debian/copyright two files under the MIT license (getopt_long.*).
> 
>  - When grepping for the word ‘copyright’, there are two false positives: Pschloss (an 
>    obvious typo), and ‘Copyright 2004 American Society for Microbiology’, which
>    refer to a publication of this society, not to the file itself.  I have not
>    mentionned them in debian/copyright.
> 
> If my team mates upload mothur 1.17.3 with the corrected debian/copyright file
> I perpared, I hope that it will answer to all your concerns.
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> -- 
> Charles Plessy
> Debian Med packaging team,
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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