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

James Johnson j.johnson at imb.uq.edu.au
Mon Feb 18 01:51:49 UTC 2013


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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