[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#694908: [malone at ebi.ac.uk: Re: Redistribution of The Software Ontology]

[Andreas Tille]

James Malone, maintainer of The Software Ontology has given permission
to publish his mail in our BTS as reference.

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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:34:47 +0000
From: James Malone <malone at ebi.ac.uk>
To: Andreas Tille <tille at users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Redistribution of The Software Ontology

Andreas, Hello,

This is not very clear so apologies, I should really add this
somewhere. The ontologies are produced under the Apache license here:

http://opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php

I think this should satisfy your requirements for distribution but if
you have any questions please do let me know.

Best,

James



On 09/01/2013 13:23, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hello James,
> 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 Software Ontology inside your according Sourceforge project.
> By packaging the EMBOSS suite the Debian operating system is
> currently redistributing some files from The Software
> 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 The Software
> Ontology files can at least be distributed in our \"non-free\"
> area, I would like to know if The Software Ontology is
> available under other terms of use or licenses, that allow
> redistributing Software 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 Software Ontology
>         Andreas.
> [1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/jira/browse/GOHELP-147
> 
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