[Debian-med-packaging] BLAT license

[Jim Kent]

Hmm.  The reason I'm comfortable having you redistribute it is that I know
you will put it in a section where it is clearly marked as license
required.

The tricky part is where re-redistribution comes in.

Perhaps in your files is a license that has a word or two on this subject
already?  If not then I must pause and think, and discuss with my people as
well.


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 01:57:39PM -0700, Jim Kent wrote:
> > It is a short license.  It does not forbid modification, and we got no
> > problem with that.  We do want to _check_ on redistribution to make sure
> > that it is clear we reserve commercial licensing rights.
> >
> > Hopefully this clears things up, but if not let me know, and we can add a
> > few more words to the license if you like.
>
> I think this is the problematic part:  How do you practically want to
> check the redistribution via Debian?  Even if the non-free section is
> not official Debian the package would available from the Debian mirrors
> and from several potential derivatives.  Surely it is no dedicated
> distribution of BLAT but the license is not totally clear whether we are
> allowed to do what we intend to do (distributing BLAT in source and
> binary form) even if it is the users obligation to read the license text
> and check whether he is allowed to use the program.
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jim,
> > >
> > > could you please give some clarification about the BLAT license.  Our
> > > ftpmaster interprets it as not distributable.  We are aware that it
> > > needs to go into the non-free section but it would be a shame if it
> > > could not even go there.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > >       Andreas.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 08:01:50PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > the license of BLAT is a bit strange. It just allows the use of the
> > > > software but no modification and no distribution. Did I miss
> > > > anything?
> > > >
> > > >   Thorsten
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://fam-tille.de
> > >
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
>
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