Dear Colleagues,
There is a nice pymol source code repository on sourceforge at
http://pymol.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pymol/
and you can make perfectly reasonable builds from that source. I
append a copy of the license in that repository below. The terms
are quite simple and reasonable.
The debian pymol 1.2r2 release (with source tarball) is available
at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/pymol
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pymol/
has 1.1 and 1.2r2 kits.
Personally, I find the debian 1.2r2 kit the most useful one.
If you don't go in for do-it-yourself, you should contact schroedinger
(see http://www.schrodinger.com/products/14/25/). Try Jason Vertrees
(jason.vertr...@schroedinger.com). I am sure he will reassure you
about not having to deal with the "copyright police."
Regards,
Herbert
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At 7:10 PM -0700 9/21/10, William G. Scott wrote:
Hi Citizens:
I have an invoice for a PyMol academic 3 year subscription through
March 31, 2011, invoice #2794.
When I enter my subscription access credentials into the pymol.org
web server, nothing happens.
The source code is no longer at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymol/files/
Bummer.
A directory appears that is labelled "files_are_at_pymol_dot_org"
The link at http://pymol.org/dsc/, which accepts my access
credentials, but does nothing, has the following text at the bottom:
Open Source Project and Code
PyMOL on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymol/.
PyMOL Source Code on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymol/develop.
I went in circles a couple of times before I realized I was lost in the woods.
In fact, the only source-code I can find for pymol is on the fink
mirror, for the OS X fink package I have been maintaining, i.e.,
http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/pymol-1.3-src.tar.bz2
Funny thing is, when I use this "open source" code to build pymol,
and fire the thing up, I get the attached splash screen that says
"Open-Source PyMOL(TM)" [sic] and then goes on to explain what I
just built is an "Executable Build available only to PyMOL Power,
Casual, and Developer Users who have a valid license ..."
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Now, admittedly, I'm not the brightest crayon in the box, but all
this this has really left me scratching my head.
I'd sure hate to be led off in handcuffs by the international
copyright police for building Open-Source PyMOL(TM).
Ironically, I even paid for it.
Or so I had thought.
Peace and joy,
Bill
William G. Scott
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
228 Sinsheimer Laboratories
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California 95064
USA
phone: +1-831-459-5367 (office)
+1-831-459-5292 (lab)
fax: +1-831-4593139 (fax)
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