Control: reassign -1 src:inchi 1.03+dfsg-4 Dear Norwid,
On 7/17/24 19:58, Norwid Behrnd via Debichem-devel wrote:
I hereby request the update of the InChI package as provided by DebiChem. At present, download and installation of libinchi1/libinchi-bin from the repositories of Debian 13/trixie provides the software equivalent to version 1.03/June 15, 2010. While Andrius Merkys thankfully packaged this version in 2019, there already was the request to provide the community a package corresponding to a more recent version of InChI. However, starting with version 1.04 (September 2011), InChI trust adopted a license scheme which did not comply Debian's policies (see, for example [1]). Today Wednesday, 2024-07-17, the InChI trust released a new version 1.07 of the software. In addition to revised and extended functionality, the open source project hosted on GitHub[2] now adopts the MIT license scheme.
Thanks for noticing about the release of InChI v1.07.0. However, the new version contains licensing inconsistencies of which I have informed the upstream some five months ago [3]. In strict sense these inconsistencies block the update of InChI in Debian. I am aware that the overall intention of InChI developers is to have InChI MIT licensed, but looking solely at the source tarball the license is not clear.
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/inchi/mailman/message/37365947/ [2] https://github.com/IUPAC-InChI/InChI
[3] https://github.com/IUPAC-InChI/InChI/issues/8 Best, Andrius
