[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#890783: Autopkgtest for prodigal (#890783)

[Liubov Chuprikova]

Hi Andreas,


> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 05:48:35PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > > I included a genome sequence from NCBI as test data. Should I indicate
> the
> > > source of this data somewhere in the package (e.g., in Readme.tests)?
> >
> > I think the best place would be debian/copyright since a data file
> > should come with a license.  I would say something like
> >
> >
> > Files: debian/tests/test-data
> > Copyright: yyyy-yyyy Copyright-Owner
> > License:
> > Comment:
> >   This file was obtained by
> >     wget URL
>
> Please let us know here on the list if you spot any problem to fill
> in the details.


I have tried to find the information that should be placed in d/copyright,
but unfortunately, I don't have any experience with this kind of stuff. So
this is what I have found so far:

   - I downloaded the test sequence from the Ensemble Bacteria, which is an
   online database of EMBL-EBI. At the bottom of the sequence page
   <http://bacteria.ensembl.org/Candidatus_carsonella_ruddii_dc/Info/Index>,
   it is indicated "Ensembl Bacteria release 38 - January 2018 © EMBL-EBI". I
   couldn't find any license they may have for the data, except that Terms
   of Use <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use> states: "EMBL-EBI
   itself places no additional restrictions on the use or redistribution of
   the data available via its online services other than those provided by the
   original data owners."
   - At first, the sequence was deposited in the GenBank database (as said
   in this paper
   <http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(13)00752-5>). I
   didn't find if the GenBank has copyright, but they say here
   <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/>: "NCBI places no restrictions on
   the use or distribution of the GenBank data. However, some submitters
   may claim patent, copyright, or other intellectual property rights in all
   or a portion of the data they have submitted."
   - Finally, I have found that the sequence itself has no patent (this had
   to be indicated in the field LOCUS of the GenBank file
   <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CP003467?report=genbank> as PAT).
   I suspect the sequence has no copyright as well, although I can't find a
   confirmation.

Could you, please, point me in the right direction. I feel like I'm getting
stuck.

Thank you,
Liubov
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