License question

[jakirkham]

This line suggests this is under BSD-3-Clause. However is subsequently followed by the GPL 3 license. These are very different licenses. Which one is applicable here?

Also there appears to be typo in the name on this line

[jakirkham]

cc @hadim

[hadim]

We need this to be clarified to package bioservices on conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/14302

[jakirkham]

@cokelaer would you be able to clarify this for us? We want to make sure we are communicating the correct licensing terms to end users installing this package 🙂

[hadim]

Related to https://github.com/cokelaer/bioservices/issues/102

[cokelaer]

@hadim Thanks for looking into this issue.

The setup.py indicates a GPL licence. The LICENSE itself is indeed confusing. I have removed the mention to BSD and fixed the typo

[cokelaer]

We need this to be clarified to package bioservices on conda-forge: conda-forge/staged-recipes#14302

Bioservices should be available on Bioconda channel itself: https://bioconda.github.io/recipes/bioservices/README.html

Not sure it can be on conda-forge as well without creating difficulties for the users ?

[jakirkham]

Thanks for clarifying the license, Thomas 😄

We do periodically move packages from bioconda to conda-forge. As bioconda is built on top of conda-forge, users should still be able to get the package if it moves to conda-forge

I've asked the bioconda team to weigh in here ( https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/14302#issuecomment-813536686 ). Haven't heard back yet