[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#694908: Contains non-free data

[Charles Plessy]

Package: emboss
Version: 6.4.0-4
Severity: serious

As discussed in the following message, EMBOSS contains non-free data.

  https://lists.debian.org/20120918045219.GA26402@falafel.plessy.net

We need to consider short- and long-term solutions to this problem.  For the
short-term solution, I think that I will not have time to split free and
non-free parts of EMBOSS, so we need again to consider to move it altogether to
non-free.  In contrary to the UniProt files which were in the test suite, the
Gene Ontology files are needed by EMBOSS to run some of its programs.

For the long-term solution, does anybody here have good contacts with the Gene
Ontology community, and would have chances to advocate for a relicensing ?

Have a nice Sunday,

-- 
Charles