[Debian-med-packaging] [Samtools-devel] Picard license

[Shaun Jackman]

Hi Tim,

I figured as much. Thanks for the quick response. Would a new release of
Picard be upcoming?

Cheers,
Shaun

On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 06:22 -0700, Tim Fennell wrote:
> Hi Shaun,
> 
> It was just an oversight - not intentional.  I've committed those five files with copyright statement replaced with our standard MIT license.
> 
> -t
> 
> On Jun 25, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Currently there are five files in Picard whose license is "All rights
> > are reserved":
> > src/java/net/sf/samtools/apps/TimeChannel.java
> > src/java/net/sf/samtools/apps/TimeRandomAccessFile.java
> > src/java/net/sf/samtools/FixBAMFile.java
> > src/scripts/explain_sam_flags.py
> > src/scripts/release_picard.sh
> > 
> > Would you consider licensing these files under the same license as the
> > rest of Picard, namely the MIT license, which begins
> > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
> > 
> > I'd like to package Picard for Debian, but the "All rights are
> > reserved" license does not permit Debian to redistribute these five
> > files.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Shaun
> > 
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