[Bioc-devel] Licensing question

[Oliver Bembom]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for your help.I have contacted the author of the donlp2() code,
and he says that I can in fact incorporate his code as long as I
restrict the use of my package to research purposes only. Would it be
sufficient to use as license the following modified version of the
original donlp2() license?

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1. cosmo is under the exclusive copyright of Oliver Bembom
    (bembom at berkeley.edu) and Peter Spellucci
    (spellucci at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de).
   		     					
2. cosmo and its constituent parts come with no warranty, whether ex-
    pressed or implied, that it is free of errors or suitable for any
    specific purpose. It must not be used to solve any problem, whose
    incorrect solution could result in injury to a person, institution
    or property. It is at the user's own risk to use cosmo or parts of
    it and the author disclaims all liability for such use.
	   		     					
3. cosmo is distributed "as is". In particular, no maintenance, support
    or trouble-shooting or subsequent upgrade is implied.
	   		     					
4. If you use this software in your research, please cite
	   		     					
   O. Bembom, S. Keles, M.J. van der Laan (2006). Supervised Detection
   of Conserved Motifs in DNA Sequences with cosmo. UC Berkeley
   Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 209.
   http://www.bepress.com/ucbbiostat/paper209.
 		     					
   cosmo makes use of the donlp2() function by Peter Spellucci.
   The use of donlp2 must be acknowledged, in any publication which
   contains results obtained with cosmo or parts of it. Citation of the
   author's name and netlib-source is suitable.

5. The free use of cosmo and parts of it is restricted for research
    purposes. Commercial uses require permission and licensing from
    Oliver Bembom and Peter Spellucci.

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>From your perspective, is there anything I might want to add or
change? Also, to address number 4 of this license, would it be
sufficient to have the following message printed each time the package
is loaded?

   cosmo makes use of the donlp2() function by Peter Spellucci.
   The use of donlp2 must be acknowledged, in any publication which
   contains results obtained with cosmo or parts of it. Citation of the
   author's name and netlib-source is suitable.

Thanks again.

Oliver