[Sixpack-development] Re: perl-bp

[Dana J. <da...@bo...>]

"David M. Kaplan" wrote:
> 
> Hi Dana,
> 
> My name is David Kaplan and I am one of the people working on sixpack, a
> bibliographic system that uses perl-bp as its base.  For a while, we
> have been wanting to expand its powers, but one of the hindrances to
> bringing in programmers to develop it is that perl-bp is not publicly
> licensed.  People are afraid to put work into something that they might
> not legally be able to modify.

Hello David.  I'm sorry for the long delays in replying.  It was my intention
when creating bp for it to be a free tool.  Unfortunately my job and family has
made it impossible for me to keep working on bp.  I'm a bit sad about that
because I never really got it distributed in the perl repositories.
 
> I was wondering if you would be willing to change the license of perl-bp
> to public (preferrably GPL as sixpack itself is GPL).  I think an email
> to that effect would be sufficient, but changing the actual license in
> the files would be even better.  We would also be willing to make any
> changes you directed us to make to the files.  The copyright would of
> course continue to be in your name and we would always acknowledge your
> efforts.

I will have to look into the various licensing agreements.  I will try to get to
this soon and run it by you -- I want to make sure your needs are met. It would
be my intention to allow anyone to make changes as necessary and redistribute
them.  I was leaning more toward a BSD license, but I'll look into the GPL
again.
--
Dana Jacobsen
da...@ac...