Hi Pat,

  The ChimeraX license does not allow redistribution.  But we have sometimes given permission for that, for example the Structural Biology Grid Consortium (SBGrid).  The main issue is our project is funded almost entirely by grants and we have to document how widely the program is used to continue to get funding.

  Could you explain more details about your distribution?  In what way does it use ChimeraX?  Can ChimeraX visualization use desktop graphics rendering accelerated by the graphics card within in a Docker image?  In general we recommend using ChimeraX on laptop/desktop computers, not containerized, not remotely displayed, because the interactive 3D rendering is often slow or broken in virtualized setups.

  Let's continue this discussion on the ChimeraX mailing list, not the Chimera mailing list.

Tom

On Oct 8, 2023, at 5:53 PM, Patrick Rynkiewicz (RIT Student) via Chimera-users <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hello!

I am a co-developer on a molecular dynamics software package that relies on UCSF ChimeraX, and am looking to package this software in a docker container. It's unclear to me from the licensing process what the policy is for ChimeraX redistribution, such as including the .deb package in a docker build. Can you please clarify if I would be able to cite and redistribute ChimeraX 1.6, Ubuntu 22.04 to non-commercial users in my software package, or does each individual user need to accept the non-commercial license agreement separately?

Thanks!

Pat Rynkiewicz

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