[GenABEL-dev] Apache license

[Yury Aulchenko]

Dear All,

As you know, all GenABEL suite packages are currently released under the GNU GPL license.

I wonder if all of us would be ok with including a package under the Apache license in the suite. My feeling is that (as expressed in http://www.genabel.org/open_source_methodology) in general a license should prevent a situation when GenABEL project community would have been "used" without any benefit (the benefit of using a software resulting [partly] due to their effort for free, the benefit of using this code for future projects). To prevent such situation, I thought that any acceptable license should declare the source code is open, allow for people to distribute it and modify it, and redistribute the modified code. 

It seems to me (is that correct?) that Apache license complies to these requirements.

So, I wonder if everybody would be OK with Apache license for some prospective GenABEL package.

with best wishes,
Yurii
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Yurii Aulchenko, PhD, Dr. Habil.
Independent researcher and consultant
yurii [dot] aulchenko [at] gmail [dot] com

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