synergizer.jar and orthoxml-0.1b.jar are not open source

[stain]

under org.bridgedb.webservice.synergizer we include lib/synergizer.jar as a system dependency, so anyone using this module would also need to add synergizer.jar to their own class path.

I tried to find the copyright/license for this JAR, and it looks like it is http://llama.mshri.on.ca/cgi/download/download.pl?software=Synergizer-Java-Client which does not look OSI compatible to me - and also requires notification sent to Harvard within 60 days. Have we sent such a notice, and do we have permission to redistribute the JAR in GitHub? At the very least we are not propagating their copyright as required.

So I wonder what agreement, if any, have been made. From the looks of it it seems we can't put this JAR in the GitHub repository which claims to be under Apache License v2.0.

Similar question is for orthoxml-0.1b.jar from http://orthoxml.org/xml/OrthoXML_Java.html which does not seem to have a license at all (!)

[egonw]

@amarillion, what can you comment on this?

[amarillion]

I don't recall that we ever explicitly tried to meet the synergizer terms, or that we sought clarification on OrthoXML. I searched my email archive to be sure, and there is no mention of this.

I'm sure this might be resolved with a brief email to the authors in both cases. Btw, I don't think it's a requirement that synergizer be OSI compatible - just that we have permission to redistribute the jar if we do so.