[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#694908: Contains non-free data

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

just to keep you updated and have a record what happened.  I asked for a
login for ChEBI issue tracker.  Because it seems to take some time I injected
into the form at

   https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/emailChebiForward.do

under my debian.org address the following text:

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Hello,
I'm writing you on the behalf of the Debian Med team which has included the EMBOSS suite into official Debian distribution.

I found on the page https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/aboutChebiForward.do the statement that the database is free.   However, I have not found an explicit right to redistribute the data.

The Debian operating system is currently redistributing some files from ChEBI indirectly, as we redistribute the EMBOSS package, which incorporates some ChEBI files since its 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 ChEBI files can at least be distributed in our "non-free" area, I would like to know if ChEBI is available under other terms of use or licenses, that allow redistributing ChEBI files.

Please note:  If you might like to apply a more detailed license including redistribution statement it would be great if you could post this in public to the Debian Med mailing list <debian-med at lists.debian.org>.

Kind regards and thanks for providing ChEBI
    Andreas.

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Kind regards

       Andreas.

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