Dear All,

I'm planning to submit a new bioinformatics package, io_lib, for review shortly, and am unsure what is the proper license name. I thought BSD-like summed it up pretty well, but rpmlint does not agree. Here is the license in full: === 8< === All files within the io_lib subdirectories should contain the following notice:

/* * Copyright (c) Medical Research Council 1994. All rights reserved. * * Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that * this copyright and notice appears in all copies. * * This file was written by James Bonfield, Simon Dear, Rodger Staden, * as part of the Staden Package at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular * Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, United Kingdom. * * MRC disclaims all warranties with regard to this software. */ === 8< ===

The package itself is hosted on SF here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/staden/io_lib-1.11.0.tar.gz

Any advice ?

Thanks, Christian

P.S. - Anyone interested to review and/or co-maintain is welcome to ping me. - I find the package name a bit disturbing... - this package builds some tools and a static library. There is no shared version, and I don't have time to hammer one out, but if someone feels inclined to provide patches I'll gladly take them and try to funnel them upstream.