deanne at density.biop.umich.edu wrote: > > License info is available at > > http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/license.html > > Essentially they want the artist to keep rights to the code, looks > like. Open Source without changes, or something. Not to start a big licensing debate here, but the GPL does not cause the artist to lose any rights to his/her code. Every GPL license starts with a copyright notice in the name of the artist(s). The FSF lets people assign their copyright to the FSF, but this is only an option. The page you're referring to, Deanne, isn't the same one I saw at the beginning of the contest many moons ago. The wording of the licensing rules I saw said the competitors MUST use the MIT license. It's not as though the authors came to a concensus about it. It's strange. I might think this requirement means the contest holders have a closed-source distribution in mind, but it's a little hard to do that with Python, isn't it? Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+