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

[Richard K. <ri...@in...>]

Hi - the certification suite is a bit of a red herring here. Originally developed to validate installation setups, as a tangible benefit to members of the Trust, and a way for organisations to financially contribute where membership wouldn't work.  Fair to say that the need for such a suite, and certification, has not been widely evidenced, and we don't expect it.

As noted, the test suite and sample files are freely available with the rest of the release  https://www.inchi-trust.org/downloads/

Best wishes

Richard

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From: Michael Banck <mb...@de...>
Sent: 14 October 2021 10:13
To: Norwid Behrnd <nb...@ya...>
Cc: inc...@li... <inc...@li...>
Subject: Re: [InChI-discuss] InChI, suggestion license adjustment

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 05:25:52PM +0200, Norwid Behrnd wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 16:48:19 +0200
> Andrew Dalke <da...@da...> wrote:
>
> > I do not know how existing binary package distributions handle this
> > detail. I am pretty sure the InChI Trust doesn't care to assert its
> > licensing details for this case.
>
> as I currently understand, the problem not only is about «open» (as
> in «freely accessible»), but the potential danger that anyone could
> modify such an open program and (accidentally) alter the algorithm,
> too. As a result, possibly multiple different executables would
> assign different InChI and InChIKey for the the very same molecule
> in the .sdf file submitted.

Debian is certainly happy to run any provided test suites to make sure
that the Debian packages are compliant.

> InChI trust offers to certify[1] the correct implementation for $US
> 5k pear year.  Right  now, I do not remember a program's manual,
> either open source (like OpenBabel, RDKit), or close source (like
> ChemDraw, Marvin) which mentions/advertises that they passed
> successfully such an audit.  But maybe you, or other subscribers here?

Are you saying Debian would have to pay 5000 USD to even access the test
suite? Or is the test suite available (where?), but just formal
certification costs that amount?

At least in the current INCHI-1-SRC.zip download I cannot find a test
suite, which is certainly a bit weird for an aspiring industry standard.


Michael


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