[EMBOSS] Files included in EMBOSS but licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs

David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu
Thu Jul 28 15:06:50 UTC 2011


Charles Plessy wrote:

>a) Remove the files in Debian's EMBOSS package.
>b) Distribute EMBOSS with the files, but in the non-free section of the
>Debian archive.
>c) Replace the files by Free equivalents, for instance by re-creating
>records from scratch.

d)  Add a small script that wget's each file from its original
distribution site and installs it in the right place.  Have the package
install script either ask if it should run this script, or have it issue
a message which describes the issue and leaves it up to the user to run
the script.

Regards,

David Mathog
mathog at caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech



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