[Bioperl-l] HOWTO copyright policy vs FDL on wiki

Brian Osborne bosborne11 at verizon.net
Mon Nov 30 14:16:07 UTC 2009


Mark,

Let me ask you a question, and don't take this question as an implicit  
criticism of your suggestion, it is not. Why would you want this more  
restrictive copyright?

Brian O.

On Nov 28, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Mark A. Jensen wrote:

> The HOWTOs appear to have a more restrictive copyright
> than FDL-- in particular, the blurb at the bottom of the
> HOWTO page asks users to use the documents for personal
> use only. I'm for this; I think we should therefore have some
> explicit license for these that specifies this kind of restriction,
> and then express that on each howto and in BioPerl:Copyright.
> Any thoughts on the right license and whether this is a good plan?
> MAJ
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