GNU bug report logs - #28946
licence problem with cufflinks

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Dave Love <fx <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 16:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dave Love <fx <at> gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 28946 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28946: licence problem with cufflinks
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:03:02 +0100
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:

> 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.

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..




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