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

[Timothy Bailey]

Martin,


On 19/02/13 8:56 PM, Martin Frith wrote:
> 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.
You are right about the nature of the changes.  Thanks for your 
understaning.

Cheers,

Tim
>
> Have a nice day,
> Martin Frith
> http://www.cbrc.jp/~martin/ <http://www.cbrc.jp/%7Emartin/>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:51 AM, James Johnson 
> <j.johnson at imb.uq.edu.au <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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> <mailto:avarus at fastmail.fm>
>     To: 	Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de>
>     <mailto:andreas at fam-tille.de>
>     CC: 	Debian Med Packaging Team
>     <debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>     <mailto:debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>, James
>     Johnson <j.johnson at imb.uq.edu.au> <mailto: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  <http://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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