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MISO: Mixture of Isoforms model for RNA-Seq isoform quantitation
http://genes.mit.edu/burgelab/miso/index.html
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License unclear #72

Closed rekado closed 9 years ago

rekado commented 9 years ago

./docs/source/index.rst says that the license for MISO is the "MIT/BSD license".

However, the file ./misopy/gff_utils.py is licensed under the GPLv2+. Likewise, ./pysplicing/src/random.c contain various functions that are licensed under the GPLv2+.

As a GPL-licensed work cannot be rereleased under a non-copyleft license such as the MIT or BSD licenses it is unclear what license the combined work is supposed to have. If ./misopy/gff_utils.py and ./pysplicing/src/random.c are an essential part of the combined work and cannot be excluded, should MISO as the combined work not also be released under the GPLv2+?

yarden commented 9 years ago

The license has been changed to GPLv2 to reflect this, since a portion of the code is not compatible with BSD. This has been clarified in documentation and pacakge.