.NET Bio (formerly Microsoft Biology Foundation) seems to be dead - the last release is a year ago, the last issue activity is from May 2015 and most of the recent issues have apparently been ignored.
Still, it has some useful code that I would like to use in my projects. Much of it is incomplete, so I would have to extend the library myself, which is fine. But I would like to make the extended version available to others. Unfortunately the project is currently hosted on CodePlex which is very hard to use, and I'd prefer to work on GitHub.
If I simply take all of the source code from CodePlex, and reupload it in my own repository on GitHub, is this allowed by licensing and so on?
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It's on github now: https://github.com/dotnetbio/bio
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Yes, the code is distributed under an Apache 2.0 license, just read it here. There are four conditions, listed after
4. Redistribution.
You may reproduce and distribute copies of the Work or Derivative Works thereof in any medium, with or without modifications, and in Source or Object form, provided that You meet the following conditions:
If I am not wrong (software licenses are complicated beasts sometimes) the Apache license even allow you to modify the license on the parts of the software which were modified by you, so you could "close" the source of your contributions - unlike the GPL, which doesn't allow closing the source in any form.
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Superbest, the project is alive and well. You could clone it to github yourself, but we are in the process of moving it over there. Feel free to checkout the discussions for more information.