[Biojava-l] Re: BioJava Lims Query -

[Sameer Wagh]

Dear Arolfe

Please have a look at the mail from Thomas ! I have a query

Can you please respond to.

Regards
> >
> > Sameer Wagh wrote:
> > >Dear Arolfe / Chris!
> > >
> > >I have browsed the site of cvs bioperl and saw your 'Chris' name listed
as a
> > >site keeper !
> > >
> > >The program of JpegEncoder is listed as freeware.
> > >
> > >Is this program freeware ?? As James White's home page says it as USD
> > >19. I am confused.
> > >
> > >The files listed in your site are showing James White's name. It has a
> > >License TXT which allows me to modify the code.
> > >
> > >Can you give some details ?? Am I free to use and modify the code ??
> > >
> > >The James White Home page - Obrador does not say that.
> > >
> > >Will you please clarify.
>

Thomas Wrote

> The whole of the biojava-lims module was contributed by Alex
> Rolfe, who I've copied on this mail.  It looks like the licence
> for the JpegEncoder package has recently been changed, because
> I can find the old, "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms,
> with or without modification" licence in quite a few places on
> the web:
>
>      http://www.chemaxon.com/marvin/doc/user/JpegEncoder.license.txt
>
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~jwo/landserf/landserf180/thirdParties/jpegencoder
/license.txt
>      ...etc...
>
> so I presume it was distributed under this licence for some
> time.  I don't see how this licence can be revoked on copies
> that have already been distributed.
>
>
> That said, I wouldn't really recommend using *any* third party
> Jpeg library any more, unless you've found something badly
> wrong with the one supplied in javax.imageio.plugins.jpeg.
>
>      Thomas.
>