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SciRuby / sciruby

Tools for scientific computation in Ruby
http://gems.sciruby.com
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Closed yannickwurm closed 13 years ago

yannickwurm commented 13 years ago

Thanks for initiating this project. It is much needed! (I am a bioinformaticist using ruby)

I'm a bit surprised by the following statement in the manifesto: "Prime Directive All published results obtained using our code must include online publication of any and all source code using our libraries. (This refers not to the constituent parts, but to SciRuby as a whole.)"

I appreciate the effort at promoting open source code. But with such strong wording I think you may alienate some users. For example, will pharma company X ban ruby because it doesn't want to have to publish the code it uses for its internal LIMS?

jtprince commented 13 years ago

We have strong feelings about transparency in science, but we also agree that this may go too far for this code base. I've removed the statements in question from the wiki. Thanks for the input!

translunar commented 13 years ago

We also just officially set our license as GPLv3. Hopefully this clarifies our policies. Thanks for the note!