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November 2005

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[AlanMcNaught@dial.pipex.com: RE: [InChI-discuss] Re: InChI software license]
by Eugen Leitl 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

----- Forwarded message from Alan <AlanMcNaught(a)dial.pipex.com> ----- From: Alan <AlanMcNaught(a)dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:16:30 -0000 To: inchi-discuss(a)lists.sourceforge.net Cc: 'Steve Heller' <steve(a)hellers.com> Subject: RE: [InChI-discuss] Re: InChI software license X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Reply-To: inchi-discuss(a)lists.sourceforge.net Dear InchI-discuss members You will be pleased (I hope) to hear that the present InChI license will soon be replaced by a more permissive "Conditions of Use" statement, which will say that InChI is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. A copy of the statement is appended to this message; this will be added to the download package along with a copy of the LGPL. With best wishes Alan McNaught **************************************************************************** Dr A D McNaught President, IUPAC Division of Chemical Nomenclature and Structure Representation Royal Society of Chemistry Thomas Graham House, Science Park Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WF, UK e-mail:adm@rsc.org **************************************************************************** The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI) Conditions of Use The purpose of these conditions of use is: . to maintain the integrity of the InChI protocol, ensuring that any InChI-enabled product always generates the same correct, unique InChI string from a specified chemical structure . to guard against the use of the InChI label in describing products that use a modified InChI protocol The 'InChI protocol' means the algorithm which is used to turn a graphical representation of a chemical structure into the corresponding InChI character string. The 'InChI software' means the software that implements the InChI protocol. InChI is a registered trademark. Conditions The InChI program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php A copy is appended to this statement. IUPAC requests that proper credit is given for the work involved in creating the InChI protocol and the software that implements it; this includes adding the following copyright notice to the beginning of your source code files, and to any copyright notice that you may distribute with programs based on this work: Copyright C The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry 2005: IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI) (contact: secretariat(a)iupac.org) _____________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ InChI-discuss mailing list InChI-discuss(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inchi-discuss ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Periodic Tales on Radio 4 (BBC)
by Mark Winter 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

For information, and to point out an interesting use of the web for chemistry The BBC is airing some "periodic tales" on Radio 4. Familiar Radio 4 voices introduce elements from the Periodic Table and the unique roles they play in human existence - with a little help from the irreverent Tom Lehrer. Here is the address to listen in on ten elements: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/periodictales.shtml Krypton: Heidli Nicklaus on the Superman element, krypton Helium: Brian Perkins dramatises the effects of Helium. Silver: Trevor Harrison (Eddie Grundy in the Archers) finds some unusual properties of Silver. Cobalt: Hedli Nicklaus (Cathy Perks) takes on the goblin element of cobalt. Selenium: Carole Boyd (The Archers' Linda Snell) unearths selenium. Oxygen: Brian Perkins bravely dramatises the effects of oxygen. A rsenic: Charlotte Green takes on the deadly history of a rsenic. Mercury: Carole Boyd (Linda Snell) reflects on mercury, the poisonous liquid metal. Iodine: Charlotte Green on the discovery of iodine's essential place in brain development. Nickel: Trevor Harrison reveals that the space station Mir is largely made of nickel. Regards -- Dr Mark J Winter Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 222 9304 fax: +44 (0)114 222 9303 e-m: mark.winter(a)sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.webelements.com/ The Sheffield Chemdex is a listing of chemistry sites on the world- wide web: http://www.chemdex.org/

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