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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Jim,

that would be fine as well.  Thanks for considering a free license.
That's very helpful for the current case of BioConductor and also for
blat which was requested by several users.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 08:37:36AM -0800, Jim Kent wrote:
> Actually though, looking at Mozilla Public LIcense, the only differences I
> don't care much about,  so if it makes it easier, I can release it under
> that as well.
> 
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > Are you guys saying that an R package that depends on another R
> > package is considered a derivative work? If so, there are probably an
> > enormous number of CRAN/Bioc packages in violation. My choice of
> > license for rtracklayer should not affect the
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org> wrote:
> > > 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
> >

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