On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Daniel Reynolds (CMP) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a quick question regarding the samtools program and it's license. > The license file bundled in the download states that samtools is released > under the MIT license (which I had thought it was), however clicking around > the terms and conditions of the website, this page > (http://www.htslib.org/terms) > suggests that the projects hosted are under the Creative Commons Attribution > -NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Could you > confirm which license the actual samtools binaries are covered by to clear > up this bit of confusion?
Quoting http://www.htslib.org/terms/ "Online content created and hosted by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is, unless otherwise stated, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution -NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License." Note "unless otherwise stated". The samtools software is quite clearly licensed as follows ("The MIT/Expat License"): https://github.com/samtools/samtools/blob/develop/LICENSE Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Samtools-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/samtools-help
