[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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