[BioRuby] License

[Trevor Wennblom]

On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Toshiaki Katayama wrote:

> Advantage:
> * we (developers and users) can be free from this kind of boring  
> comparison. :)
>
> Disadvantage:
> * none.


Just about to go to bed so this will be brief.

The biggest advantage to moving to the Ruby license, which is  
essentially the MIT license,[1] is that is compatible with Ruby  
itself.  What an honor it would be - though not necessarily desired -  
to be included in the main Ruby package itself as a standard  
library.  The least we can do is acknowledge the word "Ruby" is  
itself in the name of the project.

Let us not forget that the Ruby license is completely compatible with  
the GPL according to the Free Software Foundation.[2]

Trevor

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_License