[BioPython] Distance Matrix Parsers

Chris Lasher chris.lasher at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 23:32:12 UTC 2006


[Oops! I didn't realize I was posting to the user list! Reverting it
back to BP-Dev]
This code looks very good, Peter!

As far as licensing, I'm new to the game, but my guess is the
BioPython license (http://www.biopython.org/DIST/LICENSE ) is highly
prefered for BioPython. You still retain copyright with the license,
but the code is more "free" than under any version of the GPL.

Chris

On 6/27/06, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Chris Lasher wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Would you be up for licensing your code under the BioPython license?
> > If not, I shouldn't  look at it, as I've started coding my own module
> > for the project. From your description, your module sounds very good.
> > =-)
> >
> > Chris
>
> I am quite happy to contribute the code to BioPython under the
> appropriate license, so please go ahead.
>
> I've filled a bug on adding PHYLIP distance parsers to BioPython and
> attached a slightly revised version of the code (added "fuzzy" equality
> testing of matrices - mainly for testing):
>
> http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2034
>
> If anyone else really wants the code under some other license (GPL
> maybe) I could probably be persuaded.
>
> Peter
>
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