[DAS] RE: agave lives now at http://www.animorphics.net/lifesci.html

[Brian King]

David,

Thanks for forwarding the note.  Regarding the AGAVE
IP, I can't speak with authority since I'm not
associated with the current owners of the AGAVE name,
but I can tell you my understanding of the AGAVE
licensing terms.  The AGAVE license is modeled after
the Apache open source license.  DoubleTwist retained
the name "AGAVE", but the schema itself can be freely
distributed.  Modifications can be distributed
provided they don't have the name "AGAVE".  So you are
free to add an alignment format to the schema as long
as you don't call the new schema "AGAVE".  The DAS
community can use AGAVE as is, and if they wanted to
extend AGAVE, one option might be to redistribute it
under another name such as "BioXML".  Another would be
to get the AGAVE name from the current owners.     

Regards,
Brian

--- "Kulp, David" <david_kulp@affymetrix.com> wrote:
> Hi, Brian.  There is a discussion on BioDAS about
> using AGAVE for
> annotations.  Would you be interested to join this
> discussion and offer some
> information on the state of the licensing?
> 
> http://www.biodas.org/
> 
> -d
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chris dagdigian [mailto:dag@sonsorol.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:22 AM
> > To: Titus Brown
> > Cc: Kulp, David; das
> > Subject: agave lives now at
> http://www.animorphics.net/lifesci.html
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Brian King is maintaining AGAVE on what I would
> guess is one of his 
> > personal servers. The URL that I found in one of
> his previous 
> > emails is 
> > http://www.animorphics.net/lifesci.html
> > 
> > The website does not seem to cover what happens to
> the IP issues 
> > relating to the DTD now that DoubleTwist is
> defunct.
> > 
> > Hope this helps!
> > 
> > Regard,
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Titus Brown wrote:
> > > -> Will DoubleTwist's bankruptcy impact this
> decision?  The 
> > agave web site is
> > > -> down [ ... ]
> > > 
> > > Google has it in their cache, it seems.
> > > 
> > > --titus
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> > 
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