The very first Bioperl license scheme

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Jong's Copyleft Notice

All Jong's work is essentially copylefted,
which means I do not claim my right on any of my academic work,
all the published papers with my name are essentially my colleagues' and a lot of other people's.
This is because, I use public(free) money and facility with free ideas for
my academic work from the whole global academic community.
I do not believe in my ability of creativity, originality or things like that.
The only credit I want is that I loved, enjoyed the work and
passinately lived the wasteful time from myself(not from any of you).

However, the organization I belong to may have certain policy.

I accept certain compromise in certain situations in copyright and patent etc
as it is difficult to fathom the exact and eventual gains of unlimited
freedom to produce invisiable efficiency.

======================================================================= 1996. Aug.

Before you insist on your copyright, think what you can create in your mind.

If you want to say copyright is for the further development of software or broadly human knowledge etc,
please think honestly how much selfish interests you contain in the intension.

I am more interested in the broader efficiency of human resources and activities.

Once, there was a ruler who was said to be the son of god or a descent of god.
He, as a king, had land, people, and rights of many existences on the land he got.
Later people realized it was all about an ignorant plot as seen in 'Animal Farm' or
'Lord of flies'. These days there are kings who think they can own (exploit) the land
of imagination and thoughts. It is time to write 'Animal mind's farm' and
'Lord of minds of flies'.

To Free Software Foundation
 

serving since 17 Aug 1996 in MRC, Cambridge,
serving since Dec. 1994, Caius College, Cambridge,