Re: [Transdecoder-users] Licensing of TransDecoder

[Brian H. <bh...@br...>]

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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Shorkey, Scott <Sco...@ag...>
wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> I'm a system administrator from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a
> department of the Government of Canada. Our scientists are interested in
> using TransDecoder, but our department policy requires that we determine
> the licensing of a software package before it may be used on our systems.
> What license is TransDecoder released under, or, if it is not released
> under any formal license, can you verify that it is free to utilize for
> research purposes?
>
> Scott Shorkey
> Bioinformatics System Administrator
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