On Jul 22, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Noel O'Boyle wrote: > Nice, but note the casual redefinition of open source. > > - Noel
Because of this thread, I sent an email to the organizer for clarification. A bit of background to start off: This workshop in cheminformatics is relatively small, between 30 and 50 people that meets for over 10 years now. Among them main contributors are Igor Tetko (neural network property prediction), Peter Ertl (jme applet) and Thomas Sanders (webreactions and property explorer). Regarding open source, their main criteria are that the software source be available at no cost from a web site, and be available for review, so that people can get "a chance to learn from the source code." They will accept software "even if you are not allowed to redistribute, embed, use for commercial application, ..." it. For example, they will accept a 'non-commercial use only' license. I think it's fair to say they allow open source *and* shared source (a la Microsoft) except not allow "free software for a fee". It sounds like a nice workshop. The program is at: http://cheminformatics.epfl.ch/workshop/20140912program.shtml Andrew da...@dalkescientific.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
