samtobed.py - unforgiving license terms

PacificBiosciences / FALCON_unzip

Making diploid assembly becomes common practice for genomic study

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samtobed.py - unforgiving license terms #55

Closed 0xaf1f closed 7 years ago

0xaf1f commented 7 years ago

Is this file (src/py_utils/samtobed.py) necessary? A grep through the source code here doesn't indicate that it's used by the package itself. The (lack of) license terms ("All rights reserved") make it illegal to redistribute or do virtually anything else with it without permission. It is probably better to remove it or get a better statement from its author, @arq5x.

pb-cdunn commented 7 years ago

Hmmm. That seems to be copied from this thread:

http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2446

You're right; the copyright is strict. It was probably an accident, since aquinlan posted that into a public forum, and since it's trivial code. We can write that from scratch easily.

Fortunately, we do not use that script in FALCON_unzip. We are only distributing it. And Quinlan Lab will not sue anybody over something this small. But I will re-write it and drop the copyright.

pb-cdunn commented 7 years ago

It was not even a working script. Deleted completely. Thanks for pointing this out.