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licence problem with cufflinks

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Message #11 received at 28946 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Dave Love <fx <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28946 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28946: licence problem with cufflinks
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:10:51 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> 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 <at> uw.edu to report my findings and ask
about details.

> I’ll review this problem and will remove cufflinks by the end of this if
> we come to the conclusion that it cannot be considered free.

That’s still what I intend to do.

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Ricardo

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