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tcpan edited this page Jan 23, 2014 · 10 revisions

Licences, that other people use:

Requirements

Library specification should be open and usable by all. We will provide reference implementation. Others (individuals, academic groups, companies) can provide specific implementations. Contribution back to reference implementation is encouraged.

Reference implementation should be free for individual, academic, and governmental use. A commercial company may redistribute the specification and implementation with a commercial product with the following conditions: 1. a free-of-charge license is granted if the product and any derivatives are free of charge and/or open source, 2. a royalty based license will be negotiated on a case by case basis if the product is for sale and directly or indirectly (through third party free software) utilizes the reference implementation.

alternatively, if we can define "for profit" we can use 2 licenses for the reference implementation. alternatively, if we separate only by "individual/academic/government" vs "company", we can also use 2 license, with the second possibly be free.

Other projects

Steven Salzberg

  • Bowtie: Artistic License
  • mummer: Artistic License
  • TopHat : Boost Software License, Version 1.0
  • Cufflinks: Boost License
  • Glimmer: Artistic License
  • Kraken: GPLv3

Published on: own website, sourceforge, and newly: GitHub

ANL

  • KMI : can't find any published code

Mihai Pop (University of Maryland)

  • AMOS: Artistic License

Published on: sourceforge

Broad Institute

Published on: own FTP

Sequan

  • Seqan: NewBSD / BSD/3-clause

Published: own hosting via Trac (link was dead for me though)

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