[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#807580: r-bioc-rtracklayer: src/ucsc/* is stolen from another project with non-DFSG free license
Michael R. Crusoe
crusoe at ucdavis.edu
Thu Dec 10 14:08:44 UTC 2015
Package: r-bioc-rtracklayer
Version: 1.30.1-1
Severity: important
Dear friends,
I am sorry to report that I have recently discovered that the meat of this
package is not under the Artistic-2.0 license as one might guess, but it from
another source with a non-DFSG license.
src/ucsc/* is cobbled together from src/lib/*, src/inc/*, and src/utils/* from
http://genome-source.cse.ucsc.edu/gitweb/?p=kent.git;a=tree;f=src;h=5c83e0e5dd23c4a1cbe330db3be7dc7fe72c8251;hb=HEAD
The license for that project is: "All files are copyrighted, but license is
hereby granted for personal, academic, and non-profit use. A license is also
granted for the contents of the src/lib, src/inc and src/utils and python
directories for commercial users."
http://genome-source.cse.ucsc.edu/gitweb/?p=kent.git;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD
This license mail fail the DFSG guidelines. It doesn't explicitly permit
derived works and it does not automatically apply to redistributions.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages r-bioc-rtracklayer depends on:
ii libc6 2.21-3
ii r-base-core [r-api-3] 3.2.2.20151203-1
ii r-bioc-genomicalignments 1.6.1-1
ii r-cran-rcurl 1.95-4.7-1
ii r-cran-xml 3.98-1.3-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
r-bioc-rtracklayer recommends no packages.
r-bioc-rtracklayer suggests no packages.
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