[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1010653: busco: add autopkgtest to check integration with hmmer and prodigal

[Andreas Tille]

Am Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 07:46:49PM +0100 schrieb Sascha Steinbiss:
> > To have BUSCO lineages in the archive their licensing details have to
> > be clarified as the data does not contain any explicit statements.
> The website [0] states that
> 
>   The BUSCO datasets are licensed under the Creative Commons
>   Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of
>   this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ or
>   send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA
>   94042, USA.
> 
> The lineages and the URL you mention are referenced as the "datasets" so
> that seems to be the license statement.
> Consequently I guess including them in the package for the autopkgtest is
> not an option as the ND clause in their license is incompatible with DFSG.
> We might still download one of them at autopkgtest time but I am not sure
> that's a good idea. Any comments?

I'm wondering whether there might be some alternative data sets with a
free license.  We could ask upstream to provide something without the ND
clause.

Kind regards
   Andreas.

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