[Debian-med-packaging] Licensing of two files in prottest

Diego Darriba diegodl84 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 21:06:02 UTC 2015


Hi Andreas,

I removed the dependency on the second file, since it is not necessary
anymore. The original file was dual licensed under the Apache License
2.0 and Eclipse Public License 1.0.

Best,
Diego.

On 25.10.2015 18:31, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as I told the authors of Prottest I'm packaging Prottest for Debian.  Our
> ftpmaster has found two files where the license derives from the globally
> applied GPL-2+
> 
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 06:00:09PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>> prottest3-3.4-release/src/main/java/es/uvigo/darwin/xprottest/util/BrowserLauncher.java 
>> is not licensed under GPL-2+
> 
> This is Copyright by 1999-2001 Eric Albert who wants to get a
> notification if the code is used.  Eric, this is the notification
> about the usage. :-)
>  
>> prottest3-3.4-release/src/main/java/es/uvigo/darwin/prottest/util/WriterOutputStream.java 
>> doesn't seem to have a license at all.
> 
> This file is
> 
>    Copyright (c) 1999 Mort Bay Consulting (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
> 
> but there is no license specified.  Diego, could you please clarify the
> licensing of this file? 
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.
> 



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