[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#694908: Redistribution of Sequence Ontology inside EMBOSS suite packaged for Debian

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Karen,

sorry for pinging again.  Could you please issue some sign of live to
let us know whether we could hope for some license clarification or
whether we might need to seek for other people affiliated to  Sequence
Ontology?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:07:10PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hello Karen,
> 
> I hope you are fine and got my last mail.  In case you might need some
> time for negotiating these licensing issues it would be really great to
> give us some confirmation that you are working on this.  Any response
> from your side (or somebody else in charge for Sequence Ontology) will
> be helpful.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 01:56:51PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hello Karen,
> > 
> > I'm writing you on the behalf of the Debian Med team which has included
> > the EMBOSS suite into official Debian distribution.  The EMBOSS suite
> > does contain the file so.obo of the Sequence Ontology.  I failed to find
> > any licensing information at
> > 
> >    http://www.sequenceontology.org/
> > 
> > So I hope is fine to contact you as your are listed under "drop a note
> > to".  Please note that I have put the according bug tracker e-mail to
> > this mail which makes this mail publicly available.  While we would
> > finally need a public statement please make sure you drop this CC in
> > case you prefer that your response is not publicly readable.
> > 
> > By packaging the EMBOSS suite the Debian operating system is currently
> > redistributing the file so.obo from Sequence Ontology indirectly,
> > because EMBOSS has included these since version 6.4
> > (http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/emboss).
> > 
> > Debian considers copyrights and licenses very seriously, and our system
> > only contains Free software, that is, materials that our users can
> > freely use, modify and redistribute themselves. In addition to our
> > system, we have a "non-free" archive in which, as a convenience for our
> > users, we redistribute works that give less freedoms to our users.
> > 
> > In order to evaluate if works containing Sequence Ontology files can at
> > least be distributed in our "non-free" area, I would like to know if
> > Sequence Ontology is available under other terms of use or licenses,
> > that allow redistributing Sequence Ontology files.  You might even like
> > to follow the Gene Ontology Consortium that has put its database under a
> > Creative Commons BY (Attribution 3.0 Unported) license[1].
> > 
> > Kind regards and thanks for providing Sequence Ontology
> > 
> >        Andreas.
> > 
> > [1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/jira/browse/GOHELP-147
> > 
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