Distribution of ReAdW.exe

[Hua]

Hi,

I developed a package for LC-MS/MS based proteomics. It needs
ReAdW.exe to covnert Thermo RAW files to mzXML files. I am wondering
if I am allowed to distribute ReAdW.exe along with my software package
so that users don't have to download by themselves. If so, what kind
of license/agreements that I need to include in the distribution?

Thank you very much.

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Hua Xu, Ph. D.
Research Assistant Professor,
Research Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Medical Chemistry & Pharmacognosy, University of
Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

[Jesse J]

The following text comes from the ReAdW READEME file:

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Getting the code

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The code for this program is released under the LGPL. It can be found

in our SVN repository, specifically from the directories



http://sashimi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sashimi/tags/release_4-3-0/trans_proteomic_pipeline/src/mzXML/common

http://sashimi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sashimi/tags/release_4-3-0/trans_proteomic_pipeline/src/mzXML/converters/ReAdW



Code was build under Visual Studio 2005 (use the ReAdW project from
within the TPP.sln.)





Note you will need zlib header and lib files; a compatable version can
be found under



http://sashimi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sashimi/tags/release_4-3-0/win_lib



and will be automatically used if building with the TPP solution
(recommended.)

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From what I understand, this means that yes, you can distribute
ReAdW.exe, so long as you follow the LGPL. The problem, however, is
that you can't distribute the .dll files that come from XCalibur.

[Joe Slagel]

Hua,

Since the program ReAdW.exe is slowly being fazed out you may be better off looking at msconvert, distributed with the proteowizard, which will have better support and also handles the mzML format. 

-Joe

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[Natalie Tasman]

Hua,

I agree with Joe: look at msconvert. I believe you will find their
license to be more flexible than ReAdW's LGPL.

-Natalie

[Hua Xu]

Thank you guys. This really helpful.

Hua