[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#694908: EBI HELP: ChEBI

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Wed Jan 9 12:25:20 UTC 2013


Hi Janna,

thanks for your quick and very helpful response.  I added the following
notice to the according copyright file of the Debian EMBOSS package:

   http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/emboss.git;a=commitdiff;h=b60238c3eeb7a650bfeddeb7a276980e68af0bdd

We need to sort out other data sets but this one was one of the steps we
needed to do to fix

   http://bugs.debian.org/694908

Thanks for providing ChEBI as free data

    Andreas.

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:19:22AM -0000, Janna Hastings wrote:
> Dear Andreas, 
> 
> Thank you for your enquiry and interest in providing ChEBI within the EMBOSS
> package.  ChEBI is provided as completely open and free data, which means
> that we do not restrict our users from copying, modifying and/or
> redistributing for any purpose whatsoever. Therefore, we are happy for you
> to provide ChEBI data within your free area.  We will update our website to
> reflect accordingly. 
> 
> Thanks and best wishes,
> Janna
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chebi-help-bounces at ebi.ac.uk [mailto:chebi-help-bounces at ebi.ac.uk] On
> Behalf Of tille at debian.org
> Sent: 07 January 2013 13:13
> To: chebi-help at ebi.ac.uk
> Subject: EBI HELP: ChEBI
> 
> 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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