On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:56:03AM +0100, Daniel Reynolds (CMP) wrote: > 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?
I believe the *web site* is under the CC licence, but the code is under MIT (with the CRAM code under BSD as it was ripped out of Staden io_lib, but they're compatible licencing). James -- James Bonfield ([email protected]) | Hora aderat briligi. Nunc et Slythia Tova | Plurima gyrabant gymbolitare vabo; A Staden Package developer: | Et Borogovorum mimzebant undique formae, https://sf.net/projects/staden/ | Momiferique omnes exgrabure Rathi. -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
