bug#28946: licence problem with cufflinks

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>>> I noticed that there's a package for cufflinks, but it has a non-free
>>>> component.  It isn't packaged for Debian or Fedora because of that.  See
>>>> <https://github.com/cole-trapnell-lab/cufflinks/issues/16>.
>>>
>>> Thank you for the information! I’m going to investigate this.
>> […]
>>
>> I have written email to coletrap@uw.edu to report my findings and ask
>> about details.
>
> Sorry, I could probably have saved you effort.  I think I already mailed
> before cufflinks moved to github, and I also tried to track down the
> author of the problematic component, though they probably wouldn't hold
> the copyright as far as I remember..

I have not received any response; neither to the bug report, nor to the
email I sent.  I have removed cufflinks from Guix with commit 7bf59f702.

Thanks again for the report!

So… I’ll try to see if I can adapt the GPL code from r-locfit in a fork
of Cufflinks at some point.

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Ricardo

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