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I'd like to package parasail for GNU Guix, but I'm having difficulties understanding the license. The license looks like a variant of the 4-clause BSD license with the distinguishing difference being:
Redistributions of the software in any form, and publications based on work performed using the software should include the following citation as a reference:
Daily, Jeff. (2016). Parasail: SIMD C library for global, semi-global, and local pairwise sequence alignments. BMC Bioinformatics, 17(1), 1-11. doi:10.1186/s12859-016-0930-z
What does "should" mean here? Is this a recommendation or a legal requirement that goes beyond the usual requirement of acknowledgement that the BSD licenses ask for?
The advertising clause of the original BSD license does not make it a non-free license, but it has the effect of making it incompatible with the GPL (so code under the GPL cannot be combined with code under the original BSD license): https://www.gnu.org/licenses/bsd.html
I'd be happy if you could clarify the meaning of the license.
~~ Ricardo
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I am not trained in legal interpretations and how various open source licences interact. The license was produced by the legal team while I was employed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Please reach out to them for help here. Thanks.
Hello,
I'd like to package parasail for GNU Guix, but I'm having difficulties understanding the license. The license looks like a variant of the 4-clause BSD license with the distinguishing difference being:
What does "should" mean here? Is this a recommendation or a legal requirement that goes beyond the usual requirement of acknowledgement that the BSD licenses ask for?
The advertising clause of the original BSD license does not make it a non-free license, but it has the effect of making it incompatible with the GPL (so code under the GPL cannot be combined with code under the original BSD license): https://www.gnu.org/licenses/bsd.html
I'd be happy if you could clarify the meaning of the license.
~~ Ricardo
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: