[Debian-med-packaging] ugene - why is it in nonfree ?

[Charles Plessy]

> Am Mittwoch, den 14.06.2017, 16:56 +0200 schrieb Alois Schloegl:
> > I recently tried to install the debian package "ugene", and learned
> > that it is available only through the non-free repository [1].
> > 
> > The official webpage of ugene [2] says UGENE is licensed under
> > GPLv2. 	
> > 
> > Can you clarify why it's in nonfree ? If there is no good reason, I
> > suggest to move ugene to the main repository.

Le Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 05:46:56PM +0200, Gert Wollny a écrit :
> 
> The package contains 3rd party code that is non-free,  
> see debian/copyright: 
> 
> Files: src/plugins_3rdparty/phylyp/src/*
> Copyright: © 1993-2004 by the University of Washington.
>              Joseph Felsenstein, Akiko Fuseki, Sean Lamont, and Andrew
> Keeffe.
> License: non-free_phylip
>  Permission is granted to copy and use this program provided no fee is
>  charged for it and provided that this copyright notice is not removed.

Fortunately, PHYLIP has been freed as of version 3.696, so updating
src/plugins_3rdparty/phylyp/src/* in UGENE would allow it to be distributed in
our main section.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles