[Biojava-dev] LGPL information forgotten at BlastLikeDataSetCollection.dtd ?

[Mark Schreiber]

Hi -

Everything in Java should be LGPL. The only exceptions are jar files that
come from Apache and Jakarta projects (some of which may also be LGPL)

- Mark

On 10/9/07, Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I prepared a Debian package for biojava but a distribution with the main
> distribution was rejected because of missing copyright information here
>
>         dtd/BlastLikeDataSetCollection.dtd
>         (which just says 'all rights reserved')
>
> and almost everywhere else
>
> ~/biojava-1.5$ grep -r LGPL src | wc -l
> 25
> ~/biojava-1.5$ find src -name "*.java" | wc -l
> 1342
>
> Please consider to have the copyright information added to your sources.
>
> I am a bit uncertain about how to treat non-source files. In principle, a
> <!-- copyright statement as a comment --> would be required for these
> files,
> too. However, it should be acceptable to distribute them as they are,
> applying the copyright file that is distributed with the source, as long
> as
> no indication is given (as for dtd/BlastLikeDataSetCollection.dtd) that a
> redistribution would not be appreciated.
>
> ~/biojava-1.5$ grep -ri "all rights reserved" src | wc -l
> 41
> ~/biojava-1.5$ grep -ri "all rights reserved" . | wc -l
> 48
>
> If there are files for which you cannot decide the license easily but that
> may
> not be required for an almost functional Debian package, then I would be
> prepared to remove those files from the package...hoping that it is not
> too
> many.
>
> Many thanks for your help ... and for BioJava in the first place
>
> Steffen
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