On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Jennifer Jackson <jen@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
Hi Peter,
Good question about licenses! Sorry for the delayed answer, we had a bit of discussion to review the existing strategy.
The general guiding policy is that if a tool is not completely public, then it will not be released to the main code base/servers.
As I expected - thanks for the clarification.
That said, you are correct - if something can be worked out with tool author, coordination for a fully integrated wrapper is possible. Same would be true for remote use of a 3rd party web tool - coordination with the authors/owner would be needed first (although this is not the ideal solution for galaxy main).
OK
Meanwhile, a great place to add wrappers/remote access tools that have special licensing is the tool shed (http://community.g2.bx.psu.edu/). The user comments field (displayed as Description) is free-form text and any credits/license pointers can be added there for now. We may add in a special field for this info later on, but for immediate use this is a visible key that will likely satisfy many licensing rules.
Good idea. Can you (or someone at Galaxy) add another category? Something like "Sequence analysis", or "Protein sequence analysis" seems appropriate to me. Thanks, Peter