[Debian-med-packaging] Fwd: Re: [j.johnson at imb.uq.edu.au: Re: Installation of binary tools inside MEME]

[James Johnson]

Hi Tim, Dave,

The Debian Med Packaging Team want to know if they can backport GLAM2 
improvements (presuming there are any?) in the MEME Suite to the more 
permissively licensed GLAM2 repository?

~James

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [j.johnson at imb.uq.edu.au: Re: Installation of binary tools 
inside MEME]
Date: 	Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:04:58 +0000
From: 	Tim Booth <avarus at fastmail.fm>
To: 	Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de>
CC: 	Debian Med Packaging Team 
<debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>, James Johnson 
<j.johnson at imb.uq.edu.au>



Hi,

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 06:08:08PM +0000, Tim Booth wrote:
> > Yes, I did start looking at Meme but quickly realised it was a lot more
> > work than I thought to do a proper job on it.  I think all I wanted to
> > do in the first instance was to get an updated glam2 binary package
> > based upon the improved glam2 source within the meme code.  I guess this
> > is now the definitive glam2 as the original standalone source hasn't
> > been updated since 2008.
>
> We might try to do some comparison.  Charles previously mentioned that
> we should keep the glam2 package from Debian which is free (PD) and meme
> currently has a non-free license (according to DFSG).  So if glam2 inside
> meme is basically unchanged it might be reasonable to ignore the code
> inside meme (or asking upstream for permission to backport the changes.)

A quick "diff" across the original glam2 vs. the meme glam2 suggests
that several new options have been added for meme - see
src/glam2_args.c.

I would imagine that scripts within meme rely on these options.  In
fact, a quick grepping shows that scripts/glam2_webservice.pl.in calls
"glam2 -M" which is an option added for meme.  I've not looked for other
examples.

I hope that upstream can at least be persuaded to put their changes to
glam2 under a free license like the original glam2.  They may not be
legally bound to do so but it would be highly disingenuous  of them to
refuse.

Cheers,

TIM


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