Just a quick update and thanks again to Greg and Eric for their comments. I've received permission to release our pipeline software under the CDDL license... so it'll be Open Source, but unfortunately not under a GPL compatible license. The CDDL is being used as it's what the University are happy with, and we are keen to release something to the community as soon as possible. I hope that some of the code we release might be of use to others. It should be available mid-October, when I've had time to get everything checked through. We'll have a poster at HUPO 2009, so I look forward to meeting anyone else who is there!
DT On Aug 4, 4:28 pm, dctrud <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Firstly, apologies that this is going to be a bit of a rambling post. > > Over the past 12 months I've been working on what is effectively an > alternative interface to the TPP vs Petunia, tailored towards giving a > very simple front-end for users of our central proteomics facilities, > fully automating submission to multiple search engines, and > distributing jobs over a GridEngine cluster. There's a simple MySQL DB > backend that tracks data submissions, searches, and results. The web > app is written in Perl using the catalyst framework, and then there > are a bunch of perl pipeline scripts which invoke the TPP tools etc. > > Lots of similar functionality is present in other packages such as > CPAS, and in Petunia itself as it is continuously improved, but for > various reasons we decided to re-invent the wheel, and have come up > with something that works very nicely for us. I'm now starting the > process of requesting clearance from the University to release the > software. There's a new open source release procedure here and I > really want to make sure anything useful our software contains can be > contributed to the TPP project. > > Given that the open source release procedures here are very new, and > that in the past software has been released under relatively strict > non-commercial licenses that wouldn't allow us to give back to the TPP > project I wondered whether anyone had any tips for arguing the case > for a LGPL/GPL license? Are other people developing custom interfaces/ > pipelines for the TPP tools, particularly if targetted at core > facility usage? I'd like to be able to convincingly argue that others > would benefit from our work, but moreover that we could benefit from > people being interested in and potentially collaborating. > > Thanks, and thanks to the TPP developers for all their freely > available work! I hope to be able to give something back soon! > > Dave Trudgian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spctools-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
