Dear Hans, I want to thank you for your contribution -- I think it's a brave step forward, and I welcome you to the OB community. I think the Spectrophore code looks very interesting for a range of new fingerprint/descriptor techniques, and we definitely look forward to Pharao and Cosmos as well. It will probably be easier to add these as closely aligned "related projects": http://openbabel.org/wiki/Related_Projects
As some of you know, the Spectrophore code was ported by Silicos with help from Tim Vandermeersch and is now in the SVN trunk. This is an even better reason to finish up the 2.3 release process and get these features in the hands of end-users. > Of course, we would like to get feedback from you so that we are sure that > this would be sufficient. Please note that the term 'Spectrophore' has also > been trademarked. However, we don't think this should be an issue for > releasing the code under open source. You are likely aware that several open source projects protect code using trademarks. Mozilla Firefox is probably the most notable example -- if third parties modify the code beyond recognition, it can no longer be called Firefox anymore. In the chemistry field, there is a trademark on CML for the chemical markup language and has similar protective aims. > The reason why we have made this strategic decision to port all our software > to the open source domain is that we, as management of Silicos, strongly > believe in an open innovation model, and open source is just one of these > factors that make open innovation possible. For Silicos as a company, we > believe that by actively participating and supporting the OB community, we > could create more business in the form of services than we could otherwise. Again, we look forward to you joining and pushing the OB development community. Welcome and thanks! -Geoff --- Prof. Geoffrey Hutchison Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh tel: (412) 648-0492 email: geo...@pitt.edu web: http://hutchison.chem.pitt.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
