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

[Martin Frith]

Hi,

I would approve of backporting those improvements with the more permissive
license.  But I didn't make most (any?) of them.  I also believe the
improvements are all cosmetic changes to the interface, not changes to the
algorithm.

Have a nice day,
Martin Frith
http://www.cbrc.jp/~martin/



On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:51 AM, James Johnson <j.johnson at imb.uq.edu.au>wrote:

>  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> <avarus at fastmail.fm>  To:
> Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de> <andreas at fam-tille.de>  CC: Debian
> Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org><debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>,
> James Johnson <j.johnson at imb.uq.edu.au> <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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>      - Anon
>
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