Hello, Am Dienstag, 20. August 2013, 14:18:49 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > Hi Charles, > > I'm forwarding information from Dr. Wickham about the data file in the > munsell package as requested by you. See your email at the bottom, Let me > know what followup you want, if any. I think contacting the authors of a > 1943 paper is unlikely to be successful. We could contact the people who > put this data online (presumably people at RIT) to ask them what they > think. There is a feedback page at http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/contact.
did anybody contact the people there? If not, I can do it and ask about the usage/license of the data. Kind regards Benjamin > > Regards, Faheem > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:29:44 -0700 > From: Charlotte Wickham <cwick...@gmail.com> > To: Faheem Mitha <fah...@faheem.info> > Subject: Re: Debian enquiry about data files in munsell > > I obtained real.dat from http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/online/munsell.php > which is a digitization of Table 1 in: S. M. NEWHALL, D. NICKERSON, and > D. B. JUDD. Final report of the o.s.a. subcommittee on the spacing of the > munsell colors. J. Opt. Soc. Am., 33(7):385–411, 07 1943. > > It shouldn't be copyrighted for two reasons: (1) it's data, (2) it's > produced by employees of the federal govt, but I don't have any proof of > that. > > I'm updating my package documentation to improve the description of the > source data. > > Charlotte > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Faheem Mitha <fah...@faheem.info> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been (sort of) deputized by the Debian Med team, who are trying > to get munsell into Debian as r-cran-munsell. But they have hit a bit of a > hitch. The FTPmasters, who are Debian's gatekeepers, are wondering about > the data files in munsell. > > You ship the file R/sysdata.rda which can be created from the text > file inst/raw/real.dat using inst/raw/getmunsellmap.R. > > So, Debian wants to know where this data table inst/raw/real.dat > comes from, how it was created, and what the preferred way to modify it is. > > There are a couple of issues here. First, I think it is simply a > question of what the license for inst/raw/real.dat is. Secondly, Debian > policy says that source files should be shipped in the preferred form for > modification. > > But if necessary Charles or one of the other Debian Med people can > clarify. > > Regards, > Faheem > On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 08:28:35 +0900 > > From: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> > > To: Faheem Mitha <fah...@faheem.info> > > Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-med@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and > > get-orig-source target> > > Le Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:00:25AM +0530, Faheem Mitha a écrit : > > > r-cran-scales is now in Debian, but r-cran-ggplot2 has not yet been > > > updated. I see that r-cran-scales is not installable, because it > > > depends on r-cran-munsell, which is not in Debian, at least not > > > currently on my mirror for amd64. > > > > Hi Faheem, > > > > r-cran-munsell was submitted to the Debian archive and is currently under > > review. > > > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/r-cran-munsell_0.4-1.html > > > > However, it contains a binary file, 'sysdata.rda', that is data table in a > > compressed format. The question is whether it is generated and refreshed > > by the upstream author using a source file that is not distributed in the > > source package. Such a work would not be Free according to our > > principles.> > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2013-Aug > > ust/021177.html> > > In the newer upstream version 0.4.2, there is a script to generate > > sysdata.rda from another file, real.dat, in text format. There is no > > information on where this table comes from, how was it created, and what > > is the preferred way to modify it. > > > > If you had time to contact the upstream authors and get this point > > clarified, that would be a tremendous help. In the meantime, it may be > > difficult to update r-cran-ggplot2. I have asked for a temporary > > exemption, but I did not receive an answer yet. > > > > http://lists.debian.org/20130807233230.ga12...@falafel.plessy.net > > > > Have a nice day, > > > > > > PS: I had a quick look at corrmodel (but did not have time to test it), > > and did not find obvious problems. For the package containing the R > > scripts, it may not be necessary to name it according to the convention > > for packaged R modules, since it is not a R module. By the way, is it a > > software to study clonotypes ? I have a (much simpler) work on line at > > http://clonotyper.branchable.com/ > > > > Cheers, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/3921923.0LXvGbz6Vu@pc-benjamin
