[Debian-med-packaging] About the file COPYING in r-cran-ape

[Dylan]

Hi Andreas,
Thanks you for your explanations. Emmanuel is preparing a new version of
ape and he will fix issues about license/headers. As soon as the new
version will be release, I will update the Debian package.

Best regards,

Dylan


2014-05-13 23:08 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>:

> Hi Dylan,
>
> as I wrote in my explanatory mail about the ftpmaster response
> criticising the lack of the GPL text this is a frequent issue between
> CRAN maintainers and Debian.  Strictly speaking it is illegal to strip
> the GPL text and the argument to "reduce the size of CRAN packages" is
> pretty poor considering todays compression methods and storage sizes /
> bandwidthes.  On the other hand this does not really help our users and
> we somehow need to apply common sense.
>
> IMHO the only way is to do a pretty good job in packaging R software
> inside Debian that our work will be highly regarded by CRAN maintainers
> and once this relation is established we should try to educate them
> about this licensing problem.  Perhaps this could be done also with the
> help of other distributions - I have no idea about R packages in say
> Fedora.
>
> This is definitely no issue which should be discussed at the example of
> such a marginal package like r-cran-ape.  Thus I hope ftpmaster might
> accept the package as is under the given circumstances.  Perhaps we
> should start with a Wiki page assembling a list of affected packages
> without valid licensing information.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 07:18:38PM +0200, Dybian wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> > I asked to the upstream maintainer (Emmanuel Paradis in the CC list)
> about
> > the file COPYING, he tell me that it referrer only to GPL2 text and the
> > CRAN asked them to remove it in order to reduce the size of CRAN
> packages.
> >
> > What is the best way to do this? I add manually COPYING file in debian
> > source package or Emmanuel propose me to modify the header to directly
> say
> > reference to GPL2? In the second option, the size of Debian package will
> be
> > smaller.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Dylan
>
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> http://fam-tille.de
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