[BioRuby] License

[Toshiaki Katayama]

Advantage:
* we (developers and users) can be free from this kind of boring comparison. :)

Disadvantage:
* none.

Note that, I thank and respect the GNU project and the spirit, although.

Toshiaki

On 2007/03/30, at 7:15, Zagato wrote:

> Hello everybody...
>
> Just for curiosity I wondering: ¿what are the advantages or disadvantages of using Ruby Vs LGPL?... thinking in final users like me !
>
> ¿Somebody can please give an explain of how affect this changes for good or bad to the users...? 
>
> Lot of thanks :D
>
> Alan Jairo Acosta
> Cali - Colombia
>
> On 3/29/07, Toshiaki Katayama <ktym at hgc.jp> wrote: Moses,
>
> We realized that your codes licensed under the LGPL exists in the test/ subdirectory. 
> Could you agree with us to change the license to Ruby's on following files?
>
>   test/unit/bio/test_alignment.rb
>   test/unit/bio/test_location.rb
>   test/unit/bio/test_pathway.rb
>   test/unit/bio/test_sequence.rb 
>
> As for the other modules, we got very quick response from most of license holders that permit us to change the license of their modules.
> We, core team, appreciate your understanding and cooperations!
>
> Regards, 
> Toshiaki Katayama
>
>
> On 2007/03/28, at 20:42, Toshiaki Katayama wrote:
>
> > Dear BioRuby developers,
> >
> > Few months ago, we made decision to change the license of BioRuby library
> > from LGPL to Ruby's (same terms as Ruby) so that user who can use Ruby 
> > is also able to use BioRuby not be bothered by legal restrictions.
> >
> > We are now working on the next release and this is the time to complete
> > changes on every modules.
> >
> > * Alex, could you agree with us to change the license of your PDB modules? 
> >
> > * Fujita-san, Suga-san, could you agree with us to change the license of your HMMER module?
> >
> > * Shigenobu-san, could you agree with us to change the license of your Fastacmd module?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Toshiaki Katayama
> >
>
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> ruby << __EOF__
>   puts [ 111, 116, 97, 103, 97, 90 ].collect{|v| v.chr}.join.reverse
> __EOF__