[Biopython-dev] Biograpy 1.0 beta released

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Andrea Pierleoni
<andrea at biocomp.unibo.it> wrote:
>
>>
>>> can you send me a link to the license so that I can include it in
>>> biograpy?
>>> thanks
>>
>> The Biopython licence is just:
>> http://www.biopython.org/DIST/LICENSE
>
> Yes, I saw that license, but I didn't find any reference to MIT or
> anything else, so I was not sure this was the right one...
>
>>
>> If in the medium/long term you'd like to consider incorporating
>> this into Biopython, then my recommendation is either use a
>> compatible licence now, or ensure you get copyright assignment
>> for all code contributions so that you can change the license later.
>>
>> My worry is if you use LGPL and take third party author
>> contributions, then later wanted to change the license you'd
>> need to contact all those 3rd party authors to get their
>> permission.
>>
>
> Well we can easily change the license to the BioPython one. This is
> intended to be a free  library. the more people can use it, the better,
> even for commercial purposes.
> BioGraPy can of course be incorporated in BioPython for commodity,
> and/or be shipped as a separate package.

That how GenomeDiagram started.

> Personally I'd prefer to ship also with BioPython so we can be sure
> that the right versions are always packed together.
> Eg. If you are going to change subfeatures, than a compatible version
> of BioGraPy must be used.

Yeah - changing SeqFeature locations is a potential minefield,
so I will want to try and make any transition as smooth as
possible with a backwards compatibility hack.

Peter