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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Chris,

thanks for your answer.  I guess this is sufficient.

Thanks for your work on obo-relations

      Andreas.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:07:54AM -0800, Chris Mungall wrote:
> 
> Hi Andreas
> 
> For the new RO we made the code BSD and the content CC-BY 3.0. The content is the part that is required by EMBOSS
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/obo-relations/
> 
> Is this sufficient for the old OBO_REL (http://obofoundry.org/ro)? Is my agreement sufficient? Or do you need a license file embedded somewhere on the website (the content is somewhat frozen at the moment, I advise EMBOSS to move to the new RO)?
> 
> On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > 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 OBO
> > Relation Ontology?
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> >       Andreas.
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:06:10PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >> Hi Chris,
> >> 
> >> 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 OBO Relation Ontology)
> >> will be helpful.
> >> 
> >> Kind regards
> >> 
> >>      Andreas.
> >> 
> >> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:40:20PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >>> Hi Chris,
> >>> 
> >>> 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 some files of the OBO Relation Ontology.  I failed to find
> >>> any licensing or contact information at
> >>> 
> >>>   http://obofoundry.org/ro/
> >>> 
> >>> but I noticed that you are the maintainer of this page and you might at
> >>> least be able to forward this request.  So I hope is fine to contact
> >>> you.  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 some files from OBO Relation 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 OBO Relation Ontology files can
> >>> at least be distributed in our "non-free" area, I would like to know if
> >>> Pathway ontology is available under other terms of use or licenses, that
> >>> allow redistributing OBO Relation 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 OBO Relation Ontology
> >>> 
> >>>       Andreas.
> >>> 
> >>> [1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/jira/browse/GOHELP-147
> >>> 
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