[Biococoa-dev] BioCocoa license

[Charles Parnot]

All fine with me too :-)

btw, I was just reading about Cocotron today. In the past (and maybe  
still now?), BioCocoa was compatible with GNUStep. Cocotron could be  
an alternative too.

cheers,

charles


On Oct 28, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote:

> Scott,
>
> I don't recall what the original license was, but yes, at one point  
> in time we decided to move to CC. I could look at home in my email  
> box what the reasoning was for that, or you may find it in the  
> archives. Does Debian require a GPL license, or is CC also allowed?  
> I'm fine with adding a list of authors, and removing "The BioCocooa  
> Team". Please add Charles Parnot to the list of authors.
>
> cheers,
>
> - Koen.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Scott Christley <schristley at mac.com>
>> Sent: Oct 28, 2008 3:39 PM
>> To: biococoa <biococoa-dev at bioinformatics.org>
>> Subject: [Biococoa-dev] BioCocoa license
>>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I have been working with a Debian group to get BioCocoa included as a
>> standard Debian package.  One of the things that needs to be resolved
>> is the license for BioCocoa.
>>
>> There is both a Copying.txt which has GPL V2 and license.txt which  
>> has
>> Creative Commons BT-SA-2.5, but all the source code files seem to
>> mention that they are covered by creative commons.  Am I correct in
>> assuming that BioCocoa was originally under the GPL, but it was
>> decided to move to creative commons?
>>
>> Also, many of the file mention the copyright held by "The BioCocoa
>> Project".  I've been following that convention with the new files I
>> create.  However, The BioCocoa Project is not a legal entity, like a
>> real non-profit organization, is that right?  If that is the case, I
>> think it would be more appropriate that individual authors held
>> copyright to files.  We cannot assign copyright to a virtual entity,
>> and to be truly legal we would need legal documents from each author,
>> which is a pain.  I think we can have an Authors.txt file which lists
>> all the contributors as a way of recognition.
>>
>> Here are all the authors I could pull out from the source code files,
>> am I missing anybody?
>>
>> Koen van der Drift
>> Alexander Griekspoor
>> Philipp Seibel
>> John Timmer
>> Peter Schols
>> Scott Christley
>>
>>
>> Lastly there are some files mentioning Mekentosj.com and require that
>> "credit is given in all documents and publicity".  This requirement
>> isn't going to fly with Linux distributions because in theory they
>> would have to add this to their website, etc. etc.  Can this
>> restriction be removed?  I don't think that these files are actually
>> being compiled right now but they are in the source.
>>
>> thanks
>> Scott
>>
>>
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