[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#807580: [jstjohn/KentLib] Four files do contain old licensing statement (#2)

[Jim Kent]

Hmm, the license statements are like so on these 4:

/* hmmstats.h - Stuff for doing statistical analysis in general and

 * hidden Markov models in particular.

 *

 * This file is copyright 2000 Jim Kent, but license is hereby

 * granted for all use - public, private or commercial. */

not what is in the github note:

* Copyright (C) 2000 Jim Kent. This source code may be freely used *
* for personal, academic, and non-profit purposes. Commercial use *
* permitted only by explicit agreement with Jim Kent (jim_kent at pacbell.net)
*





On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> you probably remember my constant nagging abou the licensing of your
> library code.  Inside the bug report in Debian BTS[1] you mentioned MPL
> yourself.  Since I did not received any definitive answer stronger than
>
>    "looking at Mozilla Public LIcense, ... I can release it under
>     that as well."
>
> I was searching the web for potential new releases of the code.  I found
> something at Github which has only four files left with a non-free
> license and I mentioned this in the according bug report there[2].  From
> what I can see when inspecting the whole directory it looks pretty much
> like an unwanted leftover since all other files have later copyright and
> a free license.
>
> It would be really great if you could clarify this.
>
> Thanks a lot for your cooperation
>
>         Andreas.
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807580#112
> [2] https://github.com/jstjohn/KentLib/issues/2
>
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:56:16AM -0700, John St. John wrote:
> > Hi Andreas, this issue should be taken up directly with Jim Kent. If he
> gives the OK I am more than happy to update those problematic headers. This
> is not my code, so I am not sure what was intended between the conflicting
> statement in the README that was part of the Kent source tree at the time,
> and header comments in the individual libraries you mentioned.
> >
> > ---
> > You are receiving this because you authored the thread.
> > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
> > https://github.com/jstjohn/KentLib/issues/2#issuecomment-217906316
>
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