Dr. York,
You have my apologies for the confusion about the name. I'm no longer the lead developer of the Jmol that is at sourceforge. Although I started the project in 1998, I handed it over to Bradley Smith in 2000, and since then it has been handed over to Egon Willighagen in 2002. Egon and Miguel Howard are the ones in charge of the website and the code these days. (To be honest, I don't think I'm on the developer's mailing list any more.) I doubt there's much of my code left in the program.
I can only suggest three solutions (one reasonable, one difficult, and one silly):
1) have both sites link to each other, 2) change one or both of the names, or 3) use "Jmol" for the sourceforge applet and "JMol" for yours.
Would everyone be happy if there was a link exchange between the two sites?
Best regards,
--Dan Gezelter
I'm forwarding this on to the jmol-developers list at sf.net.
will york wrote:
Dear Dr. Gezelter,
I would like to congratulate you on the success of your molecular viewer Jmol. This project has really taken off and it looks like it is poised to take over the area of browser-enabled molecular viewing in the near future.
You may be aware that I have also written a small java applet for molecular viewing that I named Jmol in 1998, when I first wrote it. If not, you can visit my site at:
http://www.ccrc.uga.edu/~will/jmol/jmol.html
The goals of my Jmol program were and remain quite limited: to provide a very small codebase for the graphical representation of molecular coordinate files (PDB format). This jar file containing this applet is under 14 kB, allowing it to be rapidly downloaded even over very slow connections.
I have recently become more aware of some confusion on the part of scientists who are interested in the graphical representation of molecular structure. Several people have understandably thought that my Jmol is the same as your Jmol. I would like to remedy this situation, as I have no intention of claiming any credit for the great success achieved by the Jmol project at source forge. At the same time, I would like to let people know about my contributions to molecular visualization (including my Jmol applet). I have tried to figure out who originally had the name Jmol, but I haven't been able to find any definitive information regarding this.
I have considered changing the name of my applet, but I hesitate to do so until I hear from the (source forge) Jmol developers to get your opinion. I have written to the administrators of the Jmol project in the past regarding this, but I have received no reply.
Please let me know what you think is an appropriate solution to this situation.
Sincerely,
Will York Associate Professor Complex Carbohydrate Research Center Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 315 Riverbend Road Athens, Georgia 30602-4712 USA Phone: 706-542-4628 Fax: 706-542-4412
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