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PoonLab / OpenRDP

An open-source re-implementation of the RDP4 recombination detection program
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Choose a license #25

Closed ArtPoon closed 2 years ago

ArtPoon commented 2 years ago

As noted in #21, 3Seq is distributed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0, which prohibits commercial usage. Unfortunately this is not compatible with most, if not all, open source licenses for releasing software. We can either:

  1. Release OpenRDP under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  2. Come up with a custom license that also restricts commercial use (Google around for examples?)
  3. Remove 3Seq binaries from repository and have the user install it themselves (thereby agreeing to their license) in addition to GENECONV (see #21), and use whatever license we choose for our own code.
ArtPoon commented 2 years ago

I'm not crazy about option 1 because Creative Commons is not really meant for software. I am leaning towards 3.

ArtPoon commented 2 years ago

Also need to come up with a way of properly crediting the authors of RDP if our code is derived from their work.

ArtPoon commented 2 years ago

The downside of option 3 is that the Windows executable is not distributed by the 3Seq developers - it looks like it is a component of RDP.