[Debichem-devel] Bug#1076519: libinchi1: new version 1.07 of InChI (now MIT license scheme)

[Norwid Behrnd]

Package: libinchi1
Version: 1.03+dfsg-4+b2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: nbehrnd at yahoo.com

Dear Maintainer,

I hereby request the update of the InChI package as provided by DebiChem.

At present, download and installation of libinchi1/libinchi-bin from the
repositories of Debian 13/trixie provides the software equivalent to version
1.03/June 15, 2010.  While Andrius Merkys thankfully packaged this version in
2019, there already was the request to provide the community a package
corresponding to a more recent version of InChI.  However, starting with
version 1.04 (September 2011), InChI trust adopted a license scheme which did
not comply Debian's policies (see, for example [1]).

Today Wednesday, 2024-07-17, the InChI trust released a new version 1.07 of the
software.  In addition to revised and extended functionality, the open source
project hosted on GitHub[2] now adopts the MIT license scheme.

Norwid Behrnd

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/inchi/mailman/message/37365947/
[2] https://github.com/IUPAC-InChI/InChI


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.9.8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libinchi1 depends on:
ii  libc6  2.38-14

libinchi1 recommends no packages.

libinchi1 suggests no packages.

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