Andreas Tille <andreas@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:42:03AM +0100, Dave Love wrote: >> > RNA-seq results by using TopHat and Cufflinks softwares. >> >> cufflinks appears to be non-free, in which case it can't go into Fedora, >> though there doesn't seem to have been a ruling from fedora-legal on it. > > The "non-free-ness" in Debian is caused by the use of locfit. Yes <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694998> > So while the code is free software the restriction: > > ... should not, and can not, be used to > derive meaningful benchmarks, either for the speed or accuracy of algorithms. > > is something what is regarded as non-free by Debian. It's a restriction usage, if taken at face value, contra Freedom 0, in which case it's not free software. > I several times > tried to contact the authors about this but never got any response. I couldn't track down whoever seemed to be the relevant one, but I didn't try too hard. It's useful to know it's not worth the effort. I did get a response from the cufflinks maintainer, but I think the missing licence file didn't get added to the cufflinks distribution. > I'd be interested about the opinion of fedora-legal. I can ask after I get back from holiday, unless someone else cares to. I don't know if you need to be a Fedora developer to do that, though. I had hoped it might be possible to set up a repo that could contain the non-free things we have to install (abyss is another in this area). Unfortunately the UK HPC community isn't interested in that sort of thing -- or at least the people that matter -- and I don't have the resources here. _______________________________________________ scitech mailing list scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech
