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The majority of formats supported by Bioformats are GPL licensed. However, a subset of them can be used in a BSD licensed package. The subset is small, but it does give access to the OME standard formats and other common formats. Since GPL is particularly aggressive, inclusion of this package is likely a non-starter for many packages.
What could be done is to use the same pipeline/structure as outlined here but use the BSD license formats. I'm not sure of all the details, but there may be interest in such a package.
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after #4 merges, the actual jar is removed here and you could use the BSD version by starting with the env var BIOFORMATS_LICENSE=bsd (at that point, we are merely an ultra-thin wrapper around scyjava... which is the thing that mediates all the downloading. So it seems like it's the package that needs to deal with licensing)
The majority of formats supported by Bioformats are GPL licensed. However, a subset of them can be used in a BSD licensed package. The subset is small, but it does give access to the OME standard formats and other common formats. Since GPL is particularly aggressive, inclusion of this package is likely a non-starter for many packages.
What could be done is to use the same pipeline/structure as outlined here but use the BSD license formats. I'm not sure of all the details, but there may be interest in such a package.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: