[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#807580: More licensing issues (Was: BLAT license)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Jim,

do you consider Michael's hint helpful.  As you know we are taking
licensing issues serious (I'm wondering whether the people you want to
protect your code from are doing so as well or whether you are just
keeping away from using the code the honest one who care ;-) ).  Please
let us know if you want us to remove the affected code from Debian by
removing about 10 BioConductor packages.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

Mental note to myself:
    I somehow could imagine a "Free your code for Christmas" initiative
    in general.  May be we should think about this for 2016 at least.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:18:36AM +0000, Michael Crusoe wrote:
> If you are looking to ensure that derivative works aren't relicensed, and
> you want to use an existing license (which I recommend) then you are
> looking for a copyleft license.
> 
> I like this interactive guide to software licenses:
> http://oss-watch.ac.uk/apps/licdiff/
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 10:35 Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:03:50AM +0100, Jim Kent wrote:
> > > Perhaps I did not phrase it directly enough.  I ended my last email with
> > > > > > Perhaps in your files is a license that has a word or two on this
> > > subject
> > > > > > already?
> > >
> > > By this I mean,  do you have a license that mentions something about not
> > > allowing sublicenses on the license?  Could you send it to me if you do?
> >
> > I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean by "sublicenses".  Do you think
> > that redistribution of possibly changed code is "sublicensing"?  Please
> > check whether the license you have in mind will have any conflict with
> > the following DFSG guidelines which are widely accepted as open source
> > definition:
> >
> >    https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> >
> > If you see any conflict in any of these items we probably can not find
> > any license that will fit your needs.  It would help if you would
> > exactly specify what you want to approach with the license.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >      Andreas.
> >
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