[Debian-med-packaging] psipred license

[Laszlo Kajan]

Hello Steffen!

I see you had a go at psipred. You say in d/changelog that it is non-redistributable, and I remembered the same thing, but I think David
(author) changed the license. In my reading it now is almost free (redistributable too as long as no price is asked), with restrictions for
commercial use. So I think it could now be in 'non-free', no problem. See this:

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8. The Software may be made available to users over a local network or
wide area network (including the Internet), but only if access is granted
free of charge to all authorised users.
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I attach the full license, also at [1].

So, what do you think? Do you plan to finalize the packaging and get psipred into 'non-free'? I have a student who would like to use it, but she
did not take my course (yet), so she can not do the packaging herself, and I am busy with some other stuff right now.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Laszlo

[1] http://bioinfadmin.cs.ucl.ac.uk/downloads/psipred/LICENSE
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In regard to the protein structure prediction program (PSIPRED3)
herewith (the Software) the copyright and other intellectual property
rights to which belong to the Author(s).

Any user (the User) of the program undertakes to the Copyright holder that he
or she shall be bound by the following terms and conditions:-

1. The User will receive the Software and any related documentation in
confidence and will not use the same except for the purpose of their own 
research. The Software will be used only by such of the User's officers or
employees to whom it must reasonably be communicated to enable them to
undertake their research and who agree to be bound by the same confidence.
The User shall procure and enforce such agreement from his or her staff for
the benefit of the Copyright holder.

2. The publication of research using the Software must include an
appropriate citation to the method:

Jones, D.T. (1999) Protein secondary structure prediction based on
position-specific scoring matrices. J. Mol. Biol. 292:195-202.

3. All forms of the Software will be kept in a reasonably secure place to
prevent unauthorised access.

4. Each copy of the Software or, if not practicable then, any package
associated therewith shall be suitably marked (and such marking maintained) 
with the following copyright notice: "Copyright 2000 D.T.Jones. All Rights
Reserved.".

5. The Software may be modified, but any changes made shall be communicated
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6. The Software may not be sold as a standalone package, or incorporated into
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holder. The Software may be used freely for individual academic or commercial
research. The Software may also be made freely available for training or
teaching purposes.

7. The results produced by the Software may not be incorporated into any
data banks or databases which are subject to the payment of access or
license fees without the written permission of the Copyright holder.

8. The Software may be made available to users over a local network or
wide area network (including the Internet), but only if access is granted
free of charge to all authorised users. Incorporation of the Software into
a commercial Web site or other fee paying service is not allowed without
the written permission of the Copyright holder. If PSIPRED results are
returned to the user via such a network service, then a suitable
acknowledgement of the PSIPRED method must be returned somewhere in the
output text.

9. The confidentiality obligation in paragraph one shall not apply:

   (i)  to information and data known to the User at the time of
	receipt hereunder (as evidenced by its written records);

  (ii)	to information and data which was at the time of receipt in the 
	public domain or thereafter becomes so through no wrongful act of
	the User;

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