[Debian-med-packaging] Comments regarding qiime_1.2.1-1_amd64.changes

[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl]

Hi!

Am 11.04.2011 16:01, schrieb Tim Booth:

>> ... we will look at it. There is a new upload due, which sounds
>> like a good opportunity for a license check. Many additional
>> dependencies are coming in, which may also mean that other non-free
>> bits are among them, I am just not too optimistic at the very
>> moment for a move to main.
> Just now I think UClust is the big one, as it is a key dependency.  The
> latest UClust is commercial (limited no-cost version available to
> academics) but then there is a special forked version for Qiime that is
> specifically licensed "only for use in PyNAST and Qiime".
> 
> http://www.drive5.com/uclust/downloads1_2_21q.html
> 
> Ie, most decidedly not FOSS!
> 
> I'm still working through the dependencies myself, so will note what I
> find in the Copyright files and contact authors if need be.

So, to summarize all up:  Shall we accept your package for now to
contrib, or should we reject it, and you ping as with your new upload,
so we can fast track your package then?


Best regards,
  Alexander, FTP Assistant