> On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 11:24:00PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > > > At some point, I wondered if it would be possible to get > > RepeatMasker into "non-free", and having VirusSeeker into > > "contrib" then, but I'm not sure that this is legally doable > > since VirusSeeker is GPL.
Le Thu, May 07, 2020 at 11:39:18PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > Hmmm, I do not remember but non-free is ugly for several technical > reasons (no autobuilders, no autopkgtests, no QA checks etc.) Thus > the first thing I do is contacting upstream to consider changing > their license. Would you mind doing so? If yes, I would consider > mentioning our COVID-19 sprint and that a free license would support > us in our fight against the pandemic. Hi all, +1 in principle, but I note that RepeatMasker has TRF (Tandem Repeat Finder) in its dependencies, which is also non-free... http://tandem.bu.edu/trf/trf.license.html Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan
