Dear Victoria, I am Charles Plessy from the Debian project, working with Andreas Tille on packaging and distributing software relevant to medecine and bioinformatics.
Thank you for your answers about Pathway Ontology (PW) and sorry to bother you again. It would tremendously help us if we could have a confirmation that PW is released under the Creative Commons license 3.0, because in our experience, there are often misundersandings about what is meant by "free". In particular, in Debian's point of view, it is necessary to allow a work to be sold in order to be called "free". One of the reasons is that Debian is often distributed on DVDs that are sold, and that requires the right to commercially use each of the ~30,000 programs that we redistribute. The CC 3.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) would give us that right. Given that it already been adopted for other ontologies, in particular Gene Ontology, I hope that it would be possible for RGD to release PW under this license or a similarly free one. In that case, could you for instance drop a LICENSE file in ftp://rgd.mcw.edu/pub/data_release/ontology_obo_files/pathway/ or answer us at 694...@bugs.debian.org (where I have sent a carbon copy of this message). Many thanks for the time you are giving us, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
