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velocyto-team / velocyto.py

RNA velocity estimation in Python
http://velocyto.org/velocyto.py/
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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License unclear #182

Open rekado opened 5 years ago

rekado commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I just packaged velocyto.py 0.17.17 for GNU Guix, the reproducible functional package manager. I'm a little unclear on the license, though, because http://velocyto.org/velocyto.py/license/index.html says that the license is the Expat license (aka "MIT license"), while the repository declares the license to be BSD-2.

Could you please clarify which license actually applies?

Thank you very much!

gioelelm commented 5 years ago

@slinnarsson @pkharchenko could you please comment on this?

slinnarsson commented 5 years ago

I don't particularly care which one it is, and I think they are essentially identical. To me, the BSD 2-clause license is easier to read and understand, so I propose we go with that.

pkharchenko commented 5 years ago

Same here. Don’t care which one. We listed GPL-3 for velocyto.R DESCRIPTION file, but we don’t actually use any GPL code within, so that can be easily relaxed.

On Mar 27, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Sten Linnarsson notifications@github.com wrote:

I don't particularly care which one it is, and I think they are essentially identical https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/217/what-are-the-essential-differences-between-the-bsd-and-mit-licences. To me, the BSD 2-clause license is easier to read and understand, so I propose we go with that.

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