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

[Charles Plessy]

Le Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 08:47:42AM -0800, Jim Kent a écrit :
> 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

Thanks Jim for your help !

The GNU General Public License is said to be incompatible with the Common
Development and Distribution License, and I worry that it may cause problem to
Bioconductor modules that directly or transitively depend or import from
rtracklayer.

If you are looking for a non-GPL alternative, the Mozilla Public License
version 2.0 has similar features to the CDDL (it shares a common ancestor), but
is compatible with the GPL.

Have a nice Sunday,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan