Re: [InChI-discuss] InChI, suggestion license adjustment

[Norwid B. <nb...@ya...>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:30:23 +0200
Andrew Dalke <da...@da...> wrote:

> > the assigned license is not compatible with one of those Debian requests.  
> 
> Could you elaborate?

There is a separate exchange with Andrius Merkys, one of the DebiChem
maintainers of the inchi packages that I condense into «he would very
much like to initiate the update, however by license he currently may
not» (as by October 12, 2021).

In addition, reading the thread

«InChI license and Open Source (was: Release of InChI software version
1.04)»

initiated by Michael Banck on February 19th[1] requesting a
clarification, with with Greg Landrum's later reply

"Based upon this reading/understanding, it looks like I'm going to
have to remove InChI support for all binaries of the RDKit."

and additional contributions by Richard Kidd, Geoffrey Hutchison, and
by you I retain this: if InChI trust had used and kept a Debian
compatible license, Debian would have updated the libraries in their
own repositories since 2010 ongoing.  Implementation of InChI in
other applications would have been easier/would have been
permissible [again].  (Or, one files successfully for a license
separate to the one on the web site.)

So far, I identify a suggestion by you how this could be resolved by
change of the license statement (no functional change of the
library/InChI algorithm).  If this were resolved successfully, the
thread initiated by Michael Banck's would end with an explicit note
by him, or Richard Kidd (in the name of InChI trust), or you, or
someone else. Or, doesn't it?

Norwid

[1]  https://sourceforge.net/p/inchi/mailman/inchi-discuss/thread/602f80ff.1c69fb81.af992.8c96%40mx.google.com/#msg37223070