Will, I am currently travelling and am not in a position to write a great deal at this time.
Let me assure you that I will be able to pick up the dialog next week. And I am confident that we can reach some type of arrangement. One thing I would like to address right now ... you wrote: >> I have written to the administrators of the Jmol project in >> the past regarding this, but I have received no reply. If we overlooked a message from you then I sincerely apologize; it was not intentional. I will get in touch with you next week. Miguel > 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 > > > -- > *********************************************** > J. Daniel Gezelter > Assistant Professor > Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry > 251 Nieuwland Science Hall > University of Notre Dame > Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670 > > phone: +1 (574) 631-7595 > fax: +1 (574) 631-6652 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.nd.edu/~gezelter > ************************************************ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers > -------------------------------------------------- Michael T. 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