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

[Richard Holland]

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We've worked on the policy to date that the copyright notice file
included with the distribution applies to all files in that distribution.

If someone has the time to go through and apply the notices to all the
files, we'd greatly appreciate it, but right now I'm a bit busy with my
'real job' and can't do it myself.

The BlastLikeDataSetCollection DTD was created in 2000 by Simon
Brocklehurst, who describes it here:

http://portal.open-bio.org/pipermail/biojava-l/2000-August/000446.html

It might be an idea for you to contact him directly to see if he has any
problems with us changing it to LGPL.

Thanks for making the Debian package - I think it'll be really useful to
get it out to a wider audience.

cheers,
Richard

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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