[Biopython] BSD dual licensing Bertrand Frottier's contributions to Biopython

[Peter Cock]

Thank you Bertrand for agreeing to the dual licensing of your Biopython
contributions, which will help us to move to a standard open source license.

In particular, this will let us dual-license the BLAST XML parser you
original wrote:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/1878

Kind regards,

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Bertrand Frottier <bertrand.frottier at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: BSD dual licensing your contributions to Biopython
To: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>


Hello Peter,

You surely can forward my reply to the mailing list.
Thanks.

Best regards.

Bertrand

Le jeu. 22 août 2019 à 11:21, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> a écrit :
>
> Thank you Bertrand,
>
> I quite understand how easy it can be to miss emails, particularly
> from a project you are not actively working on.
>
> If you are still on the mailing list, a brief reply there to say you
> agree as a public record would be appreciated (or can I forward this
> one?)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Peter
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 6:34 PM Bertrand Frottier
> <bertrand.frottier at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Peter.
> >
> > I've just been contacted by Christian Brüffer on linkedin, and realized my huge mistake.
> >
> > I'm very sorry. I keep receiving biopython related emails and most of the time only read the title or directly discard the email. That must have append to the numerous you've sent me (since 1 year and a half, I really feel bad).
> >
> > For the business part: yes, I am the contributor, and yes, I agree to the licensing change.
> >
> > And once again, I really feel bad for missing your emailS, and present you my sincerest apologies.
> >
> > And many thanks for the work you provide on biopython.
> >
> > Best rgards,
> >
> > Bertrand
> >
> > Le jeu. 30 mai 2019 à 14:27, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> a écrit :
> >>
> >> Dear Bertrand,
> >>
> >> Are you the same Bertrand Frottier who contributed a BLAST XML
> >> parser to Biopython back in 2000, original email address:
> >>
> >> bertrand.frottier at free.fr
> >>
> >> If not, would you perhaps know the correct person?
> >>
> >> Recently, Biopython has 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 GitHub or an email
> >> to our public mailing list:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/1878
> >>
> >> Would you agree to this too, please?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> Dr Peter Cock,
> >> Current de-factor Biopython project leader.
> >> Bioinformatician at the James Hutton Institute, UK.