To the best of my knowledge the source code is still available on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymol/
You should be able to compile binaries for the OS of your choice from there. That being said, CCP4MG has been coming along nicely in recent years - at this point I'm 50:50 between Pymol and CCP4MG for making figures for presentations/papers. Cheers, Jim On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Cygler, Miroslaw <miroslaw.cyg...@usask.ca>wrote: > Hi, > I have inquired at Schrodinger about the licensing for PyMol. I was > surprised by their answer. The access to PyMol is only through a yearly > licence. They do not offer the option of purchasing the software and using > the obtained version without time limitation. This policy is very different > from many other software packages, which one can use without continuing > licensing fees and additional fees are only when an upgrade is needed. At > least I believe that Office, EndNote, Photoshop and others are distributed > this way. > I also remember very vividly the Warren’s reason for developing PyMol, and > that was the free access to the source code. He later implemented fees for > downloading binary code specific for one’s operating system but there were > no time restrictions on its use. > As far as I recollect, Schrodinger took over PyMol distribution and > development promising to continue in the same spirit. Please correct me > if I am wrong. > I find the constant yearly licensing policy disturbing and will be looking > for alternatives. I would like to hear if you have had the same experience > and what you think about the Schrodinger policy. > Best wishes, > > Mirek > > > > -- Jim Fairman, Ph D. Crystal Core Leader I Emerald Bio <http://www.embios.com> Tel: 206-780-8914 Cell: 240-479-6575 E-mail: fairman....@gmail.com jfair...@embios.com
