FishTaco (Functional Shifts Taxonomic Contributors) is a metagenomic computational framework that aims to identify the driver taxa of microbiome functional shifts
With version 1.1.0 the license has been changed from BSD 3-clause to the UW license.
The availability of those versions on GitHub as well as PyPI somewhat contradict (or at the very least make questionable) the following term of the license:
1. [...] The FishTaco software remains at your University and is not published, distributed, or otherwise transferred or made available to other than Academic Users.
Also note that by using GitHub you agreed to their Terms which state (among other things):
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Your license does not agree with that, I suppose (IANAL).
Furthermore other parts of the license (e.g., `
You may not distribute FishTaco or any modification to FishTaco to any third party.`) prevent to make FishTaco 1.1.0+ available on other platforms, e.g., http://bioconda.github.io/ / https://anaconda.org/bioconda, which could make the software easily obtainable by academic users.
The "self-destructing" part of the license
8. This Software License Agreement and all rights granted under it terminate on December 31st, 2020. Upon termination, you agree to remove so as to make unrecoverable the original FishTaco software, all copies and all modifications thereof.
also prevents generating reproducible research results in academics in the future, i.e., year 2021 and later.
Would you consider a license change which could address all or some of the above?
With version 1.1.0 the license has been changed from BSD 3-clause to the UW license. The availability of those versions on GitHub as well as PyPI somewhat contradict (or at the very least make questionable) the following term of the license:
1. [...] The FishTaco software remains at your University and is not published, distributed, or otherwise transferred or made available to other than Academic Users.Also note that by using GitHub you agreed to their Terms which state (among other things):
Your license does not agree with that, I suppose (IANAL).
Furthermore other parts of the license (e.g., `
The "self-destructing" part of the license
8. This Software License Agreement and all rights granted under it terminate on December 31st, 2020. Upon termination, you agree to remove so as to make unrecoverable the original FishTaco software, all copies and all modifications thereof.also prevents generating reproducible research results in academics in the future, i.e., year 2021 and later.Would you consider a license change which could address all or some of the above?