Sascha wrote: > I'm sorry I seemed cavalier about the open source issues. [snip]
No problem > Thanks for clarifying the GPL. I didn't quite understand that if I use > it I have to make the modified source available under the LGPL. LGPL allows you to use it as a component ... like a library. But if you want to modify it ... and certainly if you want to use it to develop a derivitave work ... then the derived work must be made available under the LGPL. > The lawyers are all on vacation now, so I'm going to take a few days > to see if I can get it to work -- if it does, then I'll definitely > contact the IP lawyers and have them get in touch with you. OK > Some issues to consider when we bring the lawyers into the conversation: > > * We're planning to use it for students in a Brown organic chemistry > class, and probably to demo to our sponsors (commercial & > governmental) and at technical conferences. Does that count as > distribution? Yes. I suspect that the terms of the GNU licenses will be quite familiar to the legal staff. And I suspect that they will already have a predetermined disposition towards use and reuse of open source software. > * I might try some rendering additions-- shadows, particularly. My > understanding is that I'd have to contribute this back -- which > probably means that I should do it in java then port it to J#, so it's > available in both Jmol and Jmol/J#. I think that makes sense. > Shall we move this discussion off the jmol-users list? Yes. We should move it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
