Subject: ITP: r-bioc-rgadem -- GNU R de novo motif discovery
Package: wnpp
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : r-bioc-rgadem
  Version         : 2.34.1
  Upstream Author : Arnaud Droit, Raphael Gottardo, Gordon Robertson and Leiping Li
* URL             : https://bioconductor.org/packages/rGADEM/
* License         : Artistic-2.0
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description     : GNU R de novo motif discovery
 rGADEM is an efficient de novo motif discovery tool for
 large-scale genomic sequence data. It is an open-source R
 package, which is based on the GADEM software.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian R Packages Maintainers at
https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-bioc-rgadem

Hi,

Charles Plessy is sorting out this licensing issue with upstream.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:00:10 +0000
From: Scott Kitterman <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>
To: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>, Debian R Packages Maintainers <r-pkg-team@alioth-lists.debian.net>
Subject: r-bioc-rgadem_2.34.1-1_amd64.changes REJECTED


This is going to have to go in non-free as is.  See src/evalue_meme.*:

/*    Copyright  (c)  1994-2006  The  Regents  of the  University of      */
/*    California.  All  Rights  Reserved.                                 */
/*                                                                        */
/*    Permission  to use,  copy,  modify,  and  distribute  any part      */
/*    of this  software for  educational,  research  and  non-profit      */
/*    purposes,  without  fee,  and  without a written  agreement is      */
/*    hereby  granted,  provided  that the  above  copyright notice,      */
/*    this paragraph  and the following  three  paragraphs appear in      */
/*    all copies.                                                         */
/*                                                                        */
/*    Those  desiring to  incorporate this  software into commercial      */
/*    products  or use for  commercial  purposes  should contact the      */
/*    Technology  Transfer  Office,  University of California,   San      */
/*    Diego,  9500 Gilman Drive,  La Jolla,  California, 92093-0910,      */
/*    Phone: (858) 534-5815.
...

The no commercial use clause fails DFSG.

Packages which depend on this package but are otherwise FOSS will have to be
uploaded to contrib.

Scott K




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