[Biopython] BSD dual licensing Thomas Hamelryck's contributions to Biopython

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 26 08:42:54 UTC 2018


Forwarding this to the list for a public record, thank you
Thomas for your agreement - we can now start to dual
license the important Bio.PDB module!

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Thomas Hamelryck <thomas.hamelryck at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Dual-licensing your Biopython contributions (Bio.PDB etc)
To: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>


Go ahead :)

And thanks for all your work over the years!

-T

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> As long as you have no objection to me forwarding this to the public
> mailing list, that is fine.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Peter
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 8:23 AM Thomas Hamelryck
> <thomas.hamelryck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Permission granted.
> > Is  this sufficient? :)
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > -Thomas
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Thomas,
> >>
> >> Back in 2002 to 2004 (approx) you made numerous contributions
> >> to Biopython, including but not limited to Bio.PDB:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/biopython-172/Bio/PDB
> >> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/biopython-172/Bio/KDTree/KDTree.py
> >> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/biopython-172/Scripts/Structure/hsexpo
> >> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/biopython-172/Doc/examples/getgene.py
> >> (and tests and documentation)
> >>
> >> Since then, we have started an effort to dual license the code
> >> under both the "Biopython License Agreement" (a unique license)
> >> and the "BSD 3-Clause License" (a widely used mainstream open
> >> source license).
> >>
> >> To that end, we are asking all our contributors to publicly agree
> >> to dual license their contributions - either on this GitHub issue
> >> (in this case as far as I know you don't have a Github account)
> >> or an email on our public mailing list:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/898
> >>
> >> Would you agree to this too please?
> >>
> >> Rather than asking you to sign up to our subscriber only mailing
> >> list, I would ask your permission to forward any agreement to
> >> the list as a public record.
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Dr Peter Cock,
> >> Current de-factor Biopython project leader.
> >> Bioinformatician at the James Hutton Institute, UK.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thomas Hamelryck, Assoc. Prof.
> > Group leader Structural Bioinformatics
> > Bioinformatics center
> > Department of Biology
> > University of Copenhagen
> > Ole Maaloes Vej 5
> > DK-2200 Copenhagen N
> > Denmark
> > http://wiki.binf.ku.dk/User:Thomas_Hamelryck
> > http://www.binf.ku.dk/research/structural_bioinformatics/




-- 
Thomas Hamelryck, Assoc. Prof.
Group leader Structural Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics center
Department of Biology
University of Copenhagen
Ole Maaloes Vej 5
DK-2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark
http://wiki.binf.ku.dk/User:Thomas_Hamelryck
http://www.binf.ku.dk/research/structural_bioinformatics/


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