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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi all,

I've realised that there is a new upstream release of rtracklayer
(1.30.2) but the files in question have not yet changed.  I realised
that the description says:

ExtraLicenses: The files in the 'src/ucsc' directory are licensed for
        all use by Jim Kent, in a manner compatible with the Artistic
        2.0 license.

It seems that the issue is settled but are there any other resources for
this statement than one of Jim's mails?  I would like to refer to some
authoritative statement to close the bug report in the Debian BTS.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:55:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 08:37:36AM -0800, Jim Kent a écrit :
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks Jim, I am sure it is helpful, not only for Bioconductor, but also for
> any other project which would like to pick up the same files form the UCSC
> browser sources.  Designed years after the CDDL, the MPL 2.0 was carefully
> worded to avoid ambiguities and incompatibilities (not just with the GNU GPL,
> but also with the Apache License).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Charles Plessy
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
> 
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