----- Forwarded message from Alan <AlanMcNaught@dial.pipex.com> ----- From: Alan <AlanMcNaught@dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:16:30 -0000 To: inchi-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: 'Steve Heller' <steve@hellers.com> Subject: RE: [InChI-discuss] Re: InChI software license X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Reply-To: inchi-discuss@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@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@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