[BioC] question about using bioconductor vignettes

[Robert Gentleman]

Hi Michael,
   Thanks for asking about this. Let me preface this by "I am not a 
lawyer", and if it is legal advice you are seeking then you should 
contact a professional. My understanding is that you need to decide 
which vignettes you would like and approach the copyright holders 
individualy. The project as a whole has no rights to grant you, 
individual packages are owned by their authors (or much more likely by 
their authors employers) and they would be in a position to say yes or no.

   Best wishes,
     Robert


Michael Janis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a question about using vignettes as instructional material.  I am a
> bioinformatics graduate student at UCLA and lead a summer seminar series on
> practical bioinformatics (tools and implementations).  This summer I am
> preparing a course reader in the form of an O'Reilly Safari U. book
> (https://www.safariu.com/) - mainly a concatenation of various texts,
> published by O'Reilly, that satisfy the needs of this summer seminar series.
> I'd like very much to have permission to include several vignettes from the
> bioconductor website in this material - the material, although in the form
> of a "book" from O'Reilly printed sources, will remain private and only
> accessible to enrolled students for this seminar series at UCLA.
> Furthermore, all authors for all works within this reader will be cited, as
> would be bioconductor and vignette authors, with an addendum specifying that
> current version information can be found on the bioconductor website.
> 
> I copy below, from the bioconductor website, the policy for using
> bioconductor vignettes for instructional purposes.  I write today to ask,
> given the private nature of this course reader material, if I may include
> bioconductor vignettes in the final printed form.  I would gladly accept any
> conditions you may request.  In past offerings of this seminar series, I
> have found the vignettes to hold significant teaching value.  Indeed, the
> vignettes were my own portal to effective use of bioconductor.  I would very
> much like to offer enrolled students a comprehensive set of materials for
> this summer's seminar offering.
> 
> Thank you for your consideration,
> 
> Michael Janis
> Ph.D. Student, Bioinformatics, UCLA
> 
> 
> 
> Using the vignettes: You are welcome to use these materials for
> instructional purposes. However, you may not include these in separately
> published works (articles, books, websites).When using all or parts of the
> Bioconductor course materials (slides, vignettes, scripts) we would
> appreciate it if you would cite the authors and refer your audience to the
> Bioconductor website
> 
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