On 21 July 2010 18:15, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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?
I guess they also have developed some other code which they are retaining. The code they are open sourcing is full featured, as far as I know. >> >> 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? > [...] Much of the code has already been added to OpenBabel (Tim Vandermeersch has been involved here) and is available in SVN. Silicos provide support. See http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2010/07/silicos-to-donate-code-to-open-babel.html from 3 weeks ago. >> >> About Silicos' proprietary software tools >> >> Spectrophores™ are Silicos' patented 3D-field descriptors. > > What restrictions does this put on the use of the software? None, in practice. And the patent expires next year and will not be renewed. > This is clearly promising as it shows the commercial value of OSS-ing but > the details will be important. Silicos were happy to work with OB to adjust the wording of the license to something acceptable to all parties. > P. > > > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
