[Debichem-devel] InChI license

Michael Banck mbanck at debian.org
Wed Jun 6 10:16:59 BST 2018


Hi,

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 04:30:21PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> One should really talk to the InChi-Trust people to put the library back
> under plain LGPL and find a different solution for whatever the problem is.
> It is neither the first nor the only library playing a normative role or
> implementing an algorithm.

I've raised the issue on the OpenBabel development list for now.

One thing I wonder is whether OpenBabel can just grab the "you can
relicense to GPLv2" clause (which I think Inchi left i) and dodge that
new section 15. I am not a lawyer, though.


Michael



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