[Biojava-dev] LGPL information forgotten at BlastLikeDataSetCollection.dtd ?

[Michael Heuer]

A question for all the devs, what are our thoughts regarding version 3 of
the LGPL?

Our version of the LGPL license header does not contain an explicit
version nor does it contain the standard clause "or any later version.""

The LICENSE file at biojava/LICENSE contains the text of version 2.1 of
the LPGL.

We should make this explicit, by including "version 2.1", "version 2.1 or
any later version", "version 3", or "version 3 or any later version" in
the LICENSE file and all the license headers.

In the case of version 3 or version 3 or any later version, we should
include the files COPYING and COPYING.LESSER per

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-howto.html

   michael


On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Andreas Prlic wrote:

> Hi Steffen,
>
> great to hear about your debian package!
> would be good to advertise it also on the BioJava wiki pages.
>
>
> > ~/biojava-1.5$ grep -ri "all rights reserved" . | wc -l
> > 48
>
> Many of the files that contain the text "all rights reserved" actually
> are coming with the correct BioJava LGPL header on top of the file.
> The misleading text is only somewhere in the
>   javadoc - strings. Therefore I would consider those files to be
> correctly under LGPL.
>
> I can remove the misleading text from the javadoc tonight, if nobody
> objects.
>
>
> > grep -r LGPL src | wc -l
> > 25
>
> The default BioJava header does not contain the text "LGPL" but
> "GNU Lesser General Public License". Therefore this is better:
>
> grep -r "gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html" src | wc -l
> 1238
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
> On 9 Oct 2007, at 11:21, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I prepared a Debian package for biojava but a distribution with the
> > main
> > distribution was rejected because of missing copyright information
> > here
> >
> > 	dtd/BlastLikeDataSetCollection.dtd
> > 	(which just says 'all rights reserved')
> >
> > and almost everywhere else
> >
> > ~/biojava-1.5$ grep -r LGPL src | wc -l
> > 25
> > ~/biojava-1.5$ find src -name "*.java" | wc -l
> > 1342
> >
> > Please consider to have the copyright information added to your
> > sources.
> >
> > I am a bit uncertain about how to treat non-source files. In
> > principle, a
> > <!-- copyright statement as a comment --> would be required for
> > these files,
> > too. However, it should be acceptable to distribute them as they are,
> > applying the copyright file that is distributed with the source, as
> > long as
> > no indication is given (as for dtd/BlastLikeDataSetCollection.dtd)
> > that a
> > redistribution would not be appreciated.
> >
> > ~/biojava-1.5$ grep -ri "all rights reserved" src | wc -l
> > 41
> > ~/biojava-1.5$ grep -ri "all rights reserved" . | wc -l
> > 48
> >
> > If there are files for which you cannot decide the license easily
> > but that may
> > not be required for an almost functional Debian package, then I
> > would be
> > prepared to remove those files from the package...hoping that it is
> > not too
> > many.
> >
> > Many thanks for your help ... and for BioJava in the first place
> >
> > Steffen
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