Re: [QSAR-devel] Re: [Cdk-devel] JOELib and CDK implementing same descriptor

[Christoph S. <c.s...@un...>]

Joerg K. Wegner wrote:
>>> CDK and JOElib has tried to not redo things as much as possible, but=20
>>> if people want to donate code to CDK which duplicates code in JOElib,=
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>>> I won't reject it... but I would prefer to see that people would work=
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>>> on complementary stuff...
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>> This is clearly not an option here.
>> We need an LGPL'd set of descriptors in order to be more flexible with=
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>> respect to usage in commercial software.
>> That's the whole story.
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> *We* includes not me, although commerical interests are interesting,=20
> such things are simply out of my PhD focus.
> I think this is a more political CDK administrator discussion you shoul=
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>  discuss internally.
> If the LGPL/GPL discussion will be a problem for the QSAR project, ther=
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> should be an official guideline for this project, even if this will=20
> exlude JOELib.

There is absolutely no reason for any such strong reaction.

There was a question, which was brought up by Joerg Wegner, as to why=20
someone would want to newly implement a descriptor which was already=20
available in JOELib. In order to avoid confusion with my students, who=20
had the order to do this kind of work, I have given the answer above,=20
where "we" refers to my group. That's it.
And license issues have nothing to do with politics in this context but=20
are vital questions for any software project, that want to be widely used.
I would appreciate if any further attempts to restrict my speech to=20
certain forums would be omitted.

Cheers,

Christoph

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