[Debian-pan-maintainers] mrcfile testsuite datasets license?
Roland Mas
lolando at debian.org
Tue Sep 20 13:57:09 BST 2022
Hello,
I'm Roland Mas, a Debian developer and freelance consultant. I'm tasked
by Synchrotron SOLEIL with packaging mrcfile for Debian. Part of that
job is ensuring that mrcfile complies with the Debian free software
guidelines (DFSG).
From what I can see, the code of mrcfile itself is fine (the
BSD-3-clause license is quite okay), that's a good start.
However, the testsuite includes a few datasets for testing the code
itself, and the license for these datasets is not quite clear.
mrcfile/tests/test_data/README.txt credits the source of two of the
datasets to EMDB; the "policies" page on the EMDB website states that
the submitter of datasets must ensure that the authors "Agree to public
distribution of all entry data without restriction", but I can't find a
trace of the actual licensing of the datasets when distributed by EMDB.
As for the mrcfile/tests/test_data/*.mrc* files, I can't find any
licensing information at all.
Could you point me at licensing information that I could rely on to be
able to include mrcfile as is into Debian? I could of course remove the
datasets from the package that I push to Debian, but then I couldn't
automatically run the testsuite, and that would be a pity (even though
it probably wouldn't impact the functionality of the package).
Thanks in advance for any pointers or information,
(And thanks for mrcfile, even though it's far from my field of expertise :-)
Roland Mas.
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