UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible, interactive molecular visualization and analysis system. Licence info: http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/licensing.html Proposition for science herd/overlay. Binary packages are usually more up to date than sources. Binary packages available for: macosx linux32 linux64 sgi-irix hp-tru64 Reproducible: Always
I don't think their license is compatible with our interests. As nice as chimera is, I for one will never add this package. If anyone disagrees feel free to reopen :)
Hi Jeffrey, Just curious: Could you elaborate some on what exactly bothers you with their license? The licenses for GAMESS or blas-got for example are also pretty restrictive but I might have missed the crucial bit, of course. Thanks, Markus
I could be way off-base in my interpretation of the various licences, but let's pretend for a moment that someone, someday, may want to patent or commercialize something that I've worked on using chimera. Their licence requirements specifically forbid that sort of thing, while the licenses of Jmol or rasmol or pymol are more permissive. VMD's definition of "commercial use" seems like they don't want anyone repackaging their software and selling it. Chimera on the other hand expressly defines non-commercial use as "academic or other scholarly research which...is not intended to produce works, services, or data for commercial use". To me, it's clear that I'm safe using *mol and VMD, and I should steer clear of chimera.
Thanks for the clarification; I'll have to look at the license again in detail later. cheers, Markus
Almost four years later, has anything changed with the assessment of the license situation of chimera. I just got a recommendation for chimera. It should be much better than pymol.
