Serge, I am afraid I dont understand what you are getting at. Are you trying to say that so few people in the world understand the NONMEM code and so noone is likely to complain that they cant understand the encrypted code?
Or are you trying to say that so few people in the world understand the NONMEM code and so encryption is rather pointless since it changes almost nothing? Douglas -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Serge Guzy Sent: Fri 7/3/2009 9:56 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [NMusers] RE: NONMEM 7 Update I do have only one simple question. How many people took advantage from the fact Nonmem was distributed as open source? If we are talking about a very small percentage, is this discussion worthwhile? How many people except bob bauer and may be somebody else I am not aware of are able to follow and understand the cuirrent nonmem code? Serge ________________________________ From: [email protected] To: Ludden, Thomas ; [email protected] Sent: Thu Jul 02 23:46:09 2009 Subject: [NMusers] RE: NONMEM 7 Update Thomas Didn't ICON consider that indeed, this decision might stimulate the divergence of an open-source clade of NONMEM, somewhat like R stemmed out of S-plus? If a small academic group starts to work in that direction, it would certainly be quickly joined by many. Thierry Buclin Univ. Hospital, Lausanne De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de Ludden, Thomas Envoyé : jeudi, 2. juillet 2009 15:15 À : Eleveld, DJ; [email protected] Cc : Krohn, Anthony Objet : RE: [NMusers] NONMEM 7 Update Dear All: Icon Development Solutions has invested in the further development of NONMEM. By mutual agreement with the University of California at San Francisco, NONMEM 7 is intellectual property belonging to IDS. However, IDS will continue to pay royalties to UCSF. The business plan under which NONMEM 7 was developed calls for the protection of the I.P. involved. In addition, NONMEM 7 contains several updated routines developed and owned by IMSL (Visual Numerics Inc.). Our agreement with IMSL stipulates that we will not distribute their source code. The installer will compile the software but will not allow the unencrypted source code to remain on the users computer. The licensing agreement will also stipulate that any attempt to access the source code will be a violation of the agreement. Some source code will be left unencrypted for various reasons, one being the need for users to change certain values in SIZES and perhaps other resource routines. Tom Thomas M. Ludden Ph.D. Vice-President, Pharmacometrics R&D ICON Development Solutions Tel: + 1 410 696 3040 Mob: + 1 410 258 2411 Fax: + 1 410 480 0776 Email: [email protected] Web: www.icondevsolutions.com -- The information contained in this email message may contain confidential or legally privileged information and is intended solely for the use of the named recipient(s). No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any transmission error. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please immediately delete the e-mail and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender either by telephone or return e-mail. Any direct or indirect use, disclosure, distribution, printing, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of XOMA. De inhoud van dit bericht is vertrouwelijk en alleen bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Anderen dan de geadresseerde(n) mogen geen gebruik maken van dit bericht, het niet openbaar maken of op enige wijze verspreiden of vermenigvuldigen. Het UMCG kan niet aansprakelijk gesteld worden voor een incomplete aankomst of vertraging van dit verzonden bericht. The contents of this message are confidential and only intended for the eyes of the addressee(s). Others than the addressee(s) are not allowed to use this message, to make it public or to distribute or multiply this message in any way. The UMCG cannot be held responsible for incomplete reception or delay of this transferred message.
