[Debian-med-packaging] ugene - why is it in nonfree ?

[Gert Wollny]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.06.2017, 16:56 +0200 schrieb Alois Schloegl:
> I recently tried to install the debian package "ugene", and learned
> that it is available only through the non-free repository [1].
> 
> The official webpage of ugene [2] says UGENE is licensed under
> GPLv2. 	
> 
> Can you clarify why it's in nonfree ? If there is no good reason, I
> suggest to move ugene to the main repository.

The package contains 3rd party code that is non-free,  
see debian/copyright: 

Files: src/plugins_3rdparty/phylyp/src/*
Copyright: © 1993-2004 by the University of Washington.
             Joseph Felsenstein, Akiko Fuseki, Sean Lamont, and Andrew
Keeffe.
License: non-free_phylip
 Permission is granted to copy and use this program provided no fee is
 charged for it and provided that this copyright notice is not removed.

Best, 
Gert