[Biopython] Fwd: BSD dual licensing your contributions to Biopython

[Peter Cock]

Forwarding to the mailing list to have a public record,
thank you to past Biopython contributor Yair Benita for
agreeing to dual license their contributions.

For background, see e.g.
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/898

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Yair Benita <yair.benita at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: BSD dual licensing your contributions to Biopython
To: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
Cc: Peter Cock <Peter.Cock at hutton.ac.uk>


Thank you Peter. That would be great.
Best
Yair

> On Sep 20, 2018, at 12:54, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> That's great - if it is easier for you, I can just forward this
> mail to the mailing list (so save you having to sign up to
> mailman, or to GitHub)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:38 PM Yair Benita <yair.benita at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Peter
>> Yes, that was me. I will do as requested below.
>> Best
>> Yair
>>
>> On Sep 19, 2018, at 14:04, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Yair,
>>
>> Over ten years ago a Yair Benita made some contributions to Biopython,
>> including:
>>
>> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/19f997e2fb9e68f0672b8cd735150bcb30ba53b9#diff-4c23cd07e1b63b9820060a70a46b697f
>>
>> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/c0c6690a779659869bc18dd7360adb569341464b
>>
>> Was this you?
>>
>> Since then, we have started an effort to dual license the code
>> under both the "Biopython License Agreement" (a unique license)
>> and the "BSD 3-Clause License" (a widely used mainstream open
>> source license).
>>
>> To that end, we are asking all our contributors to publicly agree
>> to dual license their contributions - either on this GitHub issue,
>> or an email on our public mailing list:
>>
>> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/898
>>
>> Would you agree to this too please?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> Dr Peter Cock,
>> Current de-factor Biopython project leader.
>> Bioinformatician at the James Hutton Institute, UK.