[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#645487: ensembl: includes GPL code without source

[Jonathan Nieder]

Source: ensembl
Version: 63-1
Severity: serious
Justification: distributable?

Hi,

ensembl's debian/README.source says:

| Since Jalview is not yet part of Debian, its source code is also not
| yet available through or distribution. To better comply with the GPL,
| the source code of Ensembl also ships the sources for Jalview.  It was
| downloaded from http://www.jalview.org/source/jalview_2_6_1.tar.gz
| with embedded jars removed.  This dependency on the jalview .jar renders
| the Ensembl package non-free for the time being. The situtation shall
| improve over the course of 2011. The such repacked jar file is located
| in the Ensembl package's source tree at
|           ensembl-57/htdocs/jalview/jalview_2.6.1_nojars.orig.tar.gz .

Unfortunately no such file exists --- I guess it disappeared during
some upgrade.  The jars in the source package only contain class
files, no .java source files.

Assuming that what debian/copyright says is correct, this would make
the ensembl package non-distributable:

| Files: htdocs/jalview/jalview*.jar
[...]
| Copyright: (C) 1999-2011 by all authors.
| License:  GPL-3

Am I understanding correctly?  If so, please correct the package and
notify the admins of snapshot.debian.org so the nondistributable
versions can be removed.  If not, please clarify in debian/copyright.

This must have been a huge effort to package.  Thanks for your hard
work!

Regards,
Jonathan