<div>+1. Whatever makes it easier to incorporate our code in other projects, namely having a more 'popular' yet legally similar license.<div><br></div>
<div>Cheers, </div>
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<div>João </div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p>On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Peter Cock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com" target="_blank">p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><p>On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Christian Brueffer
<br><christian@brueffer.de> wrote:
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<br>> Hi all,
<br>>
<br>> Peter initiated this discussion about changing the Biopython license to one
<br>> of the standard ones (3-clause BSD or MIT) some time ago, but it never went
<br>> anywhere :-)
<br><br>Specifically the BSD 3-Clause ("BSD New" or "BSD Simplified") license,
<br>as the closest to our current license. This is also used by the NumPy
<br>project and many other Python libraries:
<br><br>http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
<br><br>> Now with 1.66 out, I think we should revisit this question. The few people
<br>> who responded last time (just Tiago and I, if I see correctly) were in favor
<br>> of a change.
<br><br>Biopython co-founder Andrew Dalke was also positive, and gave
<br>some interesting history about the original license choice:
<br><br>http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2013-August/019941.html
<br><br>Assuming the core developers are in all agreement, we could ask
<br>the OSI for a legal opinion about if we can make this change without
<br>explicit approval of all the contributors. IANAL but this sounds possible.
<br><br>Otherwise, I think we need to start a module by module, or at least
<br>Python file-by-file audit moving each file to a dual license ("Biopython
<br>License Agreement" and/or the "BSD 3-Clause").
<br><br>Peter
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