The only possible license conflict in using RasMol 2.7 as a base would be
if you were planning to make a non-open-source derivative. Is jmol
changing from being open source? If you are concerned about the different
license wording used for RasMol, we will be able to move over to the GPL
once we have excised the GIF code. Richard Stallman has agreed that the
CIF code does not create a conflict.
Your real problem arises if you download and use Chime. The MDL
license forbids reverse engineering.
Use of 2.6 as a base will just create yet another slightly different
variant of RasMol and propogate some rather arcane bugs for a few
more years.
Regards,
Herbert
P.S. I have corrected a couple of typos on the postest page. As part
of a right-handed system, the Z axis should run from the front to the
back, not the back to the front.
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Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science
Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121
Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769
+1-631-244-3035
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Miguel Howard wrote:
> Herbert,
>
> > RasMol 2.6 is not the current version, and it is not very productive to
> > work from that as a base,
>
> In general I agree that people should use the current version of OpenRasMol.
>
> However, in my particular case I have two special reasons for running 2.6:
> 1. My primary motivation for working on Jmol is to build
> a Chime replacement. Since 2.6 was the basis for Chime,
> I think it makes sense for me to use it.
> 2. I have recently had the need to look at the source code
> in order to understand the rules for hydrogen bonding.
> Since the 2.6 source code is in the public domain, I
> can read the source code without infringing upon any
> licensing issues.
>
> I am not doing any real *work* with RasMol :-)
>
>
> > nor does it make sense to drop back
> > and fix problems in such an old version.
>
> I agree.
>
> > The best current release is
> > RasMol 2.7.2.1. I am working on a final clean up to 2.7.2 that will be
> > released shortly as 2.7.2.1.1. Then I will incorporate
> > the next round of improvements into 2.7.3. If there is a problem
> > with axis labelling, I will be happy to fix it in 2.7.3, but first we
> > need to know for sure what we want to do.
>
> Jan indicated that the labelling was *not* an issue in 2.7.? on Irix.
>
> He indicated that the Y axes labelling was a problem with RasWin. He did
> not say which version.
>
> (For my part, I don't understand the RasMol lineage/progeny well enough to
> know where RasWin fits in relative to RasMol 2.6 or 2.7 :-)
>
>
> > I believe most users are used
> > to the coordinate system in the manual in which the Y
> > axis goes down and the X axis run to the right. Is there some
> > disagreement about that?
>
> I will address this in a separate email.
>
>
>
> Miguel
>
>
>
>
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