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

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

Dear Dominik,

the reference document still is available from the same page
mentioned, i.e.

https://www.inchi-trust.org/download/106/LICENCE.pdf

It still is /the one/ shipped with version 1.06 by December 2020,
created on `Tue Sep  1 11:18:12 2020 CEST` (readout by pdfinfo).  You
possibly point to point #3 stating

```
«You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
Licence instead of this [bespoken] Licence to a given copy of the
Library. [...]  Once this change [InChI license -> GPL v2] is made in
a given copy [of yours], it is irreversible for that copy, [and any
subsequent derivatives].»
```
(square brackets enclose an interpretation of the text by mine).

A suggestion to the members of InChI trust:  At present you prepare a
bug fix release of InChI 1.06+ then possibly including a revised
license.  As an alternative to this, InChI trust might consider the
release of InChI version 1.06.1 as a patch; in comparison with
current version 1.06 without functional changes the libraries and
reference executable provide, however about an adjustment of the
license.

For one, if elected, the trustees may convene and decide on this
alone.  For an other, the developers may continue their work toward
version 1.07 eventually released at a later point of time when
qualifying as «ready for publication», too.

With regards,

Norwid