Re: [help #237320] [hamap] Changing HAMAP license to match UniProt (CC-BY-4.0)?

Thank you Nicole for the response.

Yes, we would be upgrading the data files should HAMAP re-license. Prokka
does have scripts to re-build their reference data files, though they are
not well documented:
https://github.com/tseemann/prokka/blob/master/bin/prokka-hamap_to_hmm

I think re-licensing also benefits users too, not just software packagers
:-)

I look forward to hearing back about the license!

Cheers,

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 11:27 AM Nicole Redaschi via RT <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear Michael,
>
> the person to address license questions is currently on vacation, but I
> wanted to raise another issue here until he comes back. I did not know
> Prokka, so I quickly browsed https://github.com/tseemann/prokka and saw
> that the data files it includes are 4-9 years old. This is not good for
> genome annotation, and a pity, because the Prokka code itself looks useful.
> In https://www.biostars.org/p/473293/ someone also advised to use more
> than HAMAP for genome annotation, and I tend to agree (the objective of the
> HAMAP project was depth rather than width of annotation).
>
> I wished that developers of such pipelines would provide setup scripts
> that fetch the latest data from the data providers' FTP sites instead of
> including outdated (and sometimes very big) data files in their packages.
> This would ensure that users get the latest data, and at the same time
> avoid data license problems that prevent you from including their code into
> Debian.
>
> Best regards,
> Nicole
>
> On Sat Sep 16 17:14:01 2023, [email protected] wrote:
> > Sender name: Michael R. Crusoe
> > Subject: [hamap] Changing HAMAP license to match UniProt (CC-BY-4.0)?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Since UniProt release 2018_07, the UniProt license changed from the
> > Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND 3.0) to the Creative
> > Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license.
> >
> > It would be great if HAMAP would follow this change and also adopt CC-
> > BY, as it would allow HAMAP derived data products to be included in
> > Debian; like in the HMMs in Prokka for example.
> >
> > (The "NoDerivs" part of CC-BY-ND is what is incompatible with the
> > Debian Free Software Guidelines.)
> >
> > Either a retroactive license change, or a new release under CC-BY-4.0
> > would fix the issue for us.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>
>
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