[Sixpack-development] Re: perl-bp

[David M. K. <dmk...@uc...>]

Dana,

I was wondering if you had gotten around to looking at licenses.  Sorry 
to be a nudge, but several people have asked me about the perl-bp 
license lately.  Also, we are getting a lot of downloads of the perl-bp 
rpms so there is definitely interest.  BSD or GPL are both totally 
acceptable.  

Thanks,
David Kaplan

Dana Jacobsen wrote:

>"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...
>
>  
>