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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Jim,

sorry for adding to your backlog after vacation. ;-)
Feel free to take your time to declare an official license statement.

For the moment this mail (in CC to the bug report) should be sufficient
to make the bug not critical for removal.  It would be great if you
could do some official release tarball with the new license in the next
couple of weeks.

Thanks a lot for considering a free license which saves us a lot of
trouble

    Andreas.


On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 08:47:42AM -0800, Jim Kent wrote:
> Sorry not to get back to you sooner.  I'm just getting a lot of
> post-vacation mail pile up.
> 
> A copyleft license sounds like it would work.  In particular I would be
> happy to distribute it under Common Development and Distribution License
> 
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > I just want to make sure that your question about license suggestions
> > was answered this time and you are not waiting for further input as last
> > time.  Please let us know about the status like:  I'm working on
> > relicensing with colleagues and officials / I need further input / I do
> > not consider any license change.  We just need to adapt our actions
> > accordingly.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >        Andreas.
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 09:38:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > 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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