I'm not a lawyer, but for what it's worth, a quick Google search suggests that CDDL might be distributable with LGPL:
http://books.google.com/books?id=J3rwa7t336sC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=CDDL+compatibility+LGPL&source=bl&ots=-JSri1gNAK&sig=01IFC2dbEEfZRC7AFjxcz5rUps8&hl=en&ei=DriuStCUEZKyswOs3Jm7Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=CDDL%20compatibility%20LGPL&f=false -Natalie On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:52 AM, dctrud <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
