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In-memory nucleotide sequence k-mer counting, filtering, graph traversal and more
http://khmer.readthedocs.io/
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docs say "you must cite" but software is BSD licensed #1752

Open amueller opened 6 years ago

amueller commented 6 years ago

The docs say "If you use the khmer software, you must cite:"

But the license listed later is BSD. You should either change the license (which might be hard given the number of authors) or the phrasing.

ctb commented 6 years ago

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 05:53:48PM +0000, Andreas Mueller wrote:

The docs say "If you use the khmer software, you must cite:"

But the license listed later is BSD. You should either change the license (which might be hard given the number of authors) or the phrasing.

The license is the legal requirement, the documentation is the social expectation. I see no conflict here.

best, --titus

amueller commented 6 years ago

I guess I read "must" as a legal statement as it is part of the documentation of the software. I think there is a conflict because it's unclear from the phrasing that it's not a legal requirement.

amueller commented 6 years ago

Clearly I'm not a lawyer, I was just very confused by two contradictory statements on what I have to do, feel free to close.