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<span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -----</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">Von: Julien Cristau</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">Gesendet: 29.12.12 18:46 Uhr</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">An: Charles Plessy, 694908@bugs.debian.org</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">Betreff: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#694908: Contains non-free data</span></span></p>
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On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 09:39:14 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Package: emboss
> Version: 6.4.0-4
> Severity: serious
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> As discussed in the following message, EMBOSS contains non-free data.
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> https://lists.debian.org/20120918045219.GA26402@falafel.plessy.net
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> We need to consider short- and long-term solutions to this problem. For the
> short-term solution, I think that I will not have time to split free and
> non-free parts of EMBOSS, so we need again to consider to move it altogether to
> non-free. In contrary to the UniProt files which were in the test suite, the
> Gene Ontology files are needed by EMBOSS to run some of its programs.
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Does that mean emboss and embassy-* need to be removed from wheezy?
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The GO license I read as "scientific integrity". Yes, as a consequence you cannot modify<br />
the database at will or it is not GO any more and you cite it where you use it. IIRC some<br />
two GO terms or so I had at some point suggested myself, so changes _can_ be made<br />
and one is even helped to get it done consistently. For other views on the world,<br />
have all the freedom of the world to start your own ontologies, and many are doing so.<br />
In my mind, having it all shipping together is just fine enough for Wheezy. A hard core<br />
alternative would be to substitute it with a mockup GO with the only entries explaining<br />
how to install the real thing. One could also just remove the database and see a few tools fail.<br />
To me, it is a small side issue and I suggest to demote the bug from Serious to Wishlist.<br />
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Steffen<br />
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