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

[Steffen Moeller]

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