I don’t know much about Pipeline Pilot. People are, of course, welcome to sell Open Babel binaries, provided the other parts of the GPL are met -- that is, all source code is provided: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney
Obviously any modifications you make to the source must also be available (and ideally contributed back to the project). As to the sticky question of calling Open Babel from proprietary code. If Pipeline Pilot uses fork() and exec() to execute Open Babel binaries, it’s fine. If your code needs to directly use the C++ API and link to libopenbabel, then your code would fall under the GPL. You’re free to do that, but if you redistribute it, your code falls under the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NFUseGPLPlugins (See for example what Silicos has done: http://silicos-it.com) Hope that helps, -Geoff On Jul 23, 2013, at 6:22 AM, Peter Schmidtke wrote: > Dear all, > > I was wondering if and how it would be possible to include Openbabel > binaries in a Pipeline Pilot Collection. Openbabel is GPL, but the PP > collection would be for sale and Openbabel binaries would just be called > from other components as is. Thus is it possible to integrate Openbabel > this way and distribute the package as is? Do we need a prior agreement > from the developers? > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > Peter Schmidtke, Ph.D. > Scientific Project Manager > > Discngine > 33, rue Faubourg St Antoine > 75011 Paris > France > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > OpenBabel-discuss mailing list > OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss
