Licencing questions

Johan_Dahlberg

I have two licence questions. First of:

There are two licence notes in BaseTest.java. I'm assuming that the top one is the one that should be viewed as currently in use. Is this correct?

Secondly, under which licence are the test resources made available. Am I'm free to use and redistribute these? I'm asking since I'm in the process of refactoring my pipeline project to use GATK as a external dependency, but some of the tests I've written use the files provided with the GATK as a resource, and I'd like to keep them and distribute them with the project as I've done before in my GATK fork.

Geraldine_VdAuwera

Hi Johan,

For #1, you are correct. If you see that in other files as well, the top one is always the right one. We now have a system that automatically prepends the license to all source files, but in some cases the old license text was pasted in a different places, and we haven't checked all the files manually to fix those yet. You can safely disregard that second license.

For #2, let me check back with the team -- a lot of those files are not ours originally, so I'm not sure what rights and restrictions may be attached. I'll get back to you as soon as I know more.

Geraldine_VdAuwera

Hi Johan, sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Basically, any files that we're distributing publicly via the bundle are OK for you to redistribute as you see fit, there is no license.

Johan_Dahlberg

Great. Thanks!