Hi William, You can use any version of PyMOL, the plugin API is the same in all of them (Open-Source, Incentive with edu/academic/commercial license).
Your own code, if open-sourced, needs a GPL-compatible license. You're in the same situation as the person asking "can I release my SW under the MIT license in situation 3?" (answer: Yes) here: https://riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2016-September/038129.html Only if you are going to sell your plugin, you need to purchase a commercial PyQt license. See https://riverbankcomputing.com/commercial/license-faq Hope that helps. Cheers, Thomas > On Mar 4, 2019, at 7:03 PM, William Tao <ywtao....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi PyMOL community, > > I am planning to develop a PyMOL plugin based on PyMOL 2.x versions with > PyQt. > > However, I am not quite clear about the legal implications and copyright > issues if I would like to make my plugin open-source in future. > > First, PyMOL has incentive version and open-source version. I have an > educational license for incentive version and open-source version. If I am > going to describe my plugin in a scientific article or website, which version > of PyMOL version am I allowed to use? > > Second, the PyQt requires the code based on it must also be open-source > according to GPL. > > These two factors make me confused about the possibility of publishing a > plugin for PyMOL in future. > > If anybody has experience in this aspect, please feel free to advise. > > Many thanks. > > William -- Thomas Holder PyMOL Principal Developer Schrödinger, Inc. _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pymol/lists/pymol-users/unsubscribe
