From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Guix and Bioconductor. Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:38:00 +0100 Message-ID: <875zibqczb.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87pnlz9lro.fsf@elephly.net> <877e869t80.fsf@elephly.net> <87k16si685.fsf@nckx> <87h81whxmw.fsf@nckx> <87fthf6wk7.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iiJPw-0004eK-CZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2019 09:38:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iiJPu-00047q-G6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2019 09:38:11 -0500 Received: from sender4-of-o51.zoho.com ([136.143.188.51]:21193) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iiJPu-0003vK-2E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2019 09:38:10 -0500 In-reply-to: <87fthf6wk7.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Giovanni Biscuolo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > To all Guix interested in Bioconductor, > > forgive me if I raise this question here and not to "upstream", but IMHO > this issue should escalate to Bioconductor and Guix community could do > better than single package maintainers, zimoun in this case > > I'm not a user of Bioconductor packages so I have no "weight" on this > matter, but I guess in Guix community there are **many** (potential?) > users of Bioconductor packages: could you please organize a "pressure > group" to convince Bioconductor be strict in their package acceptance > rules? > > I fear flowPeacks will not be the last package with this kind licensing > problems It sure isn=E2=80=99t. In the past I have tried to do a mass import from Bioconductor and what slows me down the most is incorrect or non-free licensing. There are some packages that declare to be licensed under Artistic 2.0, but then actually they contain data from databases that do not permit commercial use. Or they contain a copy of non-free tools, or only work when those tools are present (e.g. kent tools, of which we provide a package containing the few free tools). It=E2=80=99s a pretty frustrating process to weed out these packages. > Since =C2=ABBioconductor is committed to open source, collaborative, > distributed software development and literate, reproducible research.=C2= =BB [1] CRAN appears to be stricter about licenses (even though =E2=80=9Cstrict=E2= =80=9D is probably much too strong a word=E2=80=A6). Bioconductor people appear to c= are a little less. -- Ricardo