Hi,
I have been trying to wrap my head around the following license, and
discussed the contents of it with colleagues. There seems to be two
markedly opposed opinions around the license. This is, people that
think it's OSI-compliant, and people that think it's nothing close to
being OSI-compliant:
Hi,
I have been trying to wrap my head around the following license, and
discussed the contents of it with colleagues. There seems to be two
markedly opposed opinions around the license. This is, people that
think it's OSI-compliant, and people that think it's nothing close to
being OSI-compliant:
Put me in the nothing close to being OSI camp.
It discriminates against anyone other than Illumina, Inc who would
like to use it in gene sequencing software. I would therefore fail it
under item 5. A major intent of open source software is exactly that
you not discriminate in this way.
But I'm
On 13/03/14 10:26, Albert Vilella wrote:
> markedly opposed opinions around the license. This is, people that
> think it's OSI-compliant, and people that think it's nothing close to
> being OSI-compliant:
How could anyone think that a license which says "use or sale of the
Software as part of a Sa
I agree with Ben.
The part requiring a license from llumina for commercial use in
non-illumina branded equipment in (1)(d) and (4)(b) step over the line.
Ditto the part where you cannot use it for SaaS (4)(c).
(2)(d) which requires commercial entity to inform Illumina about their
modification is
Thanks for the question. I agree with the other comments here and have
submitted an issue to the project on Github.
S.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Albert Vilella wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to wrap my head around the following license, and
> discussed the contents of it with colle
Hi Albert, Gervase,
Thanks for your continuing thoughts on the Illumina license issue. I don't
have much to add to the discussion at this point, but I did want to let you
know I was reading the posts, and will try to make use of the feedback to
help us get illumina code out into the OSI community
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