On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Bryan Bishop <[email protected]> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Wilfried Langenaeker <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:49 AM
> Subject: Silicos goes Open Source
> To: "Bryan Bishop" <[email protected]>
>
>
> PRESS RELEASE:
> SILICOS NV PORTS ITS PROPRIETARY COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY SOFTWARE INTO THE
> OPEN SOURCE DOMAIN
>
> On June 22, 2010, the Belgium-based computational chemistry company
> Silicos NV has made a
> strategic decision to port the majority of its proprietary software
> into the open source arena.
What does "majority" mean? Is there a coherent OSS standalone library?
> The
> decision has been made to port all of these tools and the
> corresponding C/C++ API's into the Open
> Babel environment under a GNU GPL licensing scheme.
>
I'd be very interested in what "the Open Babel environment" means - can
anyone on BO comment?
[...]
> About Silicos' proprietary software tools
>
> Spectrophores™ are Silicos' patented 3D-field descriptors.
>
What restrictions does this put on the use of the software?
This is clearly promising as it shows the commercial value of OSS-ing but
the details will be important.
P.
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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