On 30 July 2010 19:51, Geoffrey Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote: >> even if all the code was rewritten, the code ownership would not change >> at least if the changes are incremental. If this is true, you might be >> unable to relicense OpenBabel without permission from OpenEye even if >> all the original code is rewritten. > > Actually, what Craig is referencing (I think) is an effort to totally scrap > the Open Babel core, in favor of a combined library written in collaboration > with RDKit. The pieces that we'd bring to the table would be things that have > been written since Open Eye and we clearly know the contributors. > > In any case, both your point and Craig's point is that life would be much > better if Open Eye were willing to discuss relicensing their code. > > Incidentally, I find it ironic that a few years ago, Open Eye was publicly > bashing InChI and now want to use it.
I think we can all agree that more widespread use of InChI is a good thing. Also, if the technical objections are a real problem, then BSD projects (as MolCore will be, and RDKit is) will have the same problems using the InChI code as proprietary projects. > -Geoff > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
