[License-discuss] Illumina Open Source License

[Ben Tilly]

Put me in the nothing close to being OSI camp.

It discriminates against anyone other than Illumina, Inc who would
like to use it in gene sequencing software.  I would therefore fail it
under item 5.  A major intent of open source software is exactly that
you not discriminate in this way.

But I'm a private citizen and my interpretation is only my
interpretation.  If you're specifically interested in Debian, then go
to https://www.debian.org/legal/ and get on their mailing lists to get
their opinions.  Because that is the only one that matters.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Albert Vilella <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to wrap my head around the following license, and
> discussed the contents of it with colleagues. There seems to be two
> markedly opposed opinions around the license. This is, people that
> think it's OSI-compliant, and people that think it's nothing close to
> being OSI-compliant:
>
> http://github.com/sequencing/isaac_aligner/blob/master/General_Illumina_Open_Source_License_Template_1_Final.pdf?raw=true
>
> Although I don't have anything against the license itself, I am
> personally curious to see how it does when reviewed in this mailing
> list. Specifically, I would like to see if there are any impediments
> for software under this license to be packaged for Debian.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Albert.
>
> Disclaimer: these thoughts and opinions are my own, and not that of my employer.
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