[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#694908: Redistribution of Evidence codes inside EMBOSS suite packaged for Debian

[Andreas Tille]

Hello Michelle,

I hope you are fine and got my last mail.  In case you might need some
time for negotiating these licensing issues it would be really great to
give us some confirmation that you are working on this.  Any response
from your side (or somebody else in charge for Evidence codes) will be
helpful.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:30:40PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hello Michelle,
> 
> 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 Evidence codes ontology and the site
> 
>    http://www.obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=evidence_code
> 
> lists you as contact.  So I hope is fine to contact you.  Please note
> that I have put the according bug tracker e-mail to this mail which
> makes this mail publicly available.  While we would finally need a
> public statement please make sure you drop this CC in case you prefer
> that your response is not publicly readable.
> 
> By packaging the EMBOSS suite the Debian operating system is currently
> redistributing some files from Evidence codes ontology indirectly, which
> incorporates some Evidence codes ontology 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 Evidence codes ontology files
> can at least be distributed in our "non-free" area, I would like to know
> if Evidence codes ontology is available under other terms of use or
> licenses, that allow redistributing Evidence codes 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 Evidence codes
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
> [1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/jira/browse/GOHELP-147
> 
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