| Subject: | Minor License anomaly |
All this distribution appears to fall under Apache 2.0 license.
However, one file which is probably rarely looked at:
https://metacpan.org/source/AVULLO/Bio-DB-HTS-3.01/DISCLAIMER
Stipulates:
----
It also has a few additional requirements:
- That any downloader ( or mirror ) indemnify OICR
- That any consumers who use it in research report the use of this software in doing so.
If those requirements are to be considered license terms, then it makes this software potentially non-free, and possibly precludes this distribution being published anywhere an automated 3rd party mirror could accidentally mirror it without agreeing to the license.
Based on the rest of the distribution, I think the appropriate course of action may be to remove this file.
--
- CPAN kentnl@cpan.org
- Gentoo Perl Maintainer kentnl@gentoo.org ( perl@gentoo.org )
However, one file which is probably rarely looked at:
https://metacpan.org/source/AVULLO/Bio-DB-HTS-3.01/DISCLAIMER
Stipulates:
----
you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself
---It also has a few additional requirements:
- That any downloader ( or mirror ) indemnify OICR
- That any consumers who use it in research report the use of this software in doing so.
If those requirements are to be considered license terms, then it makes this software potentially non-free, and possibly precludes this distribution being published anywhere an automated 3rd party mirror could accidentally mirror it without agreeing to the license.
Based on the rest of the distribution, I think the appropriate course of action may be to remove this file.
--
- CPAN kentnl@cpan.org
- Gentoo Perl Maintainer kentnl@gentoo.org ( perl@gentoo.org )