[Biopython-dev] [BioPython] Distance Matrix Parsers

Chris Lasher chris.lasher at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 23:33:57 UTC 2006


Oh brother... today's not my day. NOW it's back on BP-Dev...

Stupidly yours,
Chris

On 6/27/06, Chris Lasher <chris.lasher at gmail.com> wrote:
> [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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> >
>



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