[BioRuby] License

Zagato zagato.gekko at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 22:15:47 UTC 2007


Hello everybody...

Just for curiosity I wondering: ¿what are the advantages or disadvantages of
using Ruby Vs LGPL?... thinking in final users like me !

¿Somebody can please give an explain of how affect this changes for good or
bad to the users...?

Lot of thanks :D

Alan Jairo Acosta
Cali - Colombia

On 3/29/07, Toshiaki Katayama <ktym at hgc.jp> wrote:
>
> Moses,
>
> We realized that your codes licensed under the LGPL exists in the test/
> subdirectory.
> Could you agree with us to change the license to Ruby's on following
> files?
>
>   test/unit/bio/test_alignment.rb
>   test/unit/bio/test_location.rb
>   test/unit/bio/test_pathway.rb
>   test/unit/bio/test_sequence.rb
>
> As for the other modules, we got very quick response from most of license
> holders that permit us to change the license of their modules.
> We, core team, appreciate your understanding and cooperations!
>
> Regards,
> Toshiaki Katayama
>
>
> On 2007/03/28, at 20:42, Toshiaki Katayama wrote:
>
> > Dear BioRuby developers,
> >
> > Few months ago, we made decision to change the license of BioRuby
> library
> > from LGPL to Ruby's (same terms as Ruby) so that user who can use Ruby
> > is also able to use BioRuby not be bothered by legal restrictions.
> >
> > We are now working on the next release and this is the time to complete
> > changes on every modules.
> >
> > * Alex, could you agree with us to change the license of your PDB
> modules?
> >
> > * Fujita-san, Suga-san, could you agree with us to change the license of
> your HMMER module?
> >
> > * Shigenobu-san, could you agree with us to change the license of your
> Fastacmd module?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Toshiaki Katayama
> >
>
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