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

[Mark Schreiber]

Sorry, I mean everything in biojava (not java)

On 10/31/07, Mark Schreiber <markjschreiber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> Everything in Java should be LGPL. The only exceptions are jar files that
> come from Apache and Jakarta projects (some of which may also be LGPL)
>
> - Mark
>
> On 10/9/07, Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de> 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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