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Bam-file parser
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snpEff config file included in the repository. #1

Open mtop opened 4 years ago

mtop commented 4 years ago

Will including this config file (licensed under LGPLv3) cause any conflict with our current licensing?

mtop commented 4 years ago

The config file has now been moved to data/snpeff but is ignored by git for the moment, until we have figured out any potential licensing issues.

MattPinder commented 4 years ago

As far as I can tell, the only difference between the licenses is that LGPL-covered libraries can be included in proprietary software, whereas GPL-covered libraries cannot:

"The GNU Project has two principal licenses to use for libraries. One is the GNU Lesser GPL; the other is the ordinary GNU GPL. The choice of license makes a big difference: using the Lesser GPL permits use of the library in proprietary programs; using the ordinary GPL for a library makes it available only for free programs."

By that logic, I think we'd be okay to include the config file in Bamboozle?