Re: [Chimera-users] ChimeraX Redistribution Policy Question
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!
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Hi Tom, Thanks for the reply. The software just imports run from chimerax.core.commands to custom color map calculations onto protein structures. It is a post-processing suite of tools to perform comparative analysis on molecular dynamics simulations. I am happy to have users install and accept the ChimeraX license agreement themselves before using our software to conform to your requirements.
Best, Pat Rynkiewicz
On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 5:35 PM Tom Goddard goddard@sonic.net wrote:
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!
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Hi Pat,
It is probably easiest in terms of licensing issues to have the users of your tools install ChimeraX. Many existing ChimeraX users may be interested in your analysis tools and an easy way for them to get it is using the ChimeraX Toolshed, a kind of app store for ChimeraX plugins. This allows them to use ChimeraX menu entry Tools / More Tools... which shows the Toolshed web site and then just pressing an Install button makes it ready to use.
https://cxtoolshed.rbvi.ucsf.edu/
There is a lot of documentation about how to make ChimeraX plugin online
https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/tutorials/introduction.html
Tom
On Oct 10, 2023, at 4:20 PM, Patrick Rynkiewicz (RIT Student) pxr8793@rit.edu wrote:
Hi Tom, Thanks for the reply. The software just imports run from chimerax.core.commands to custom color map calculations onto protein structures. It is a post-processing suite of tools to perform comparative analysis on molecular dynamics simulations. I am happy to have users install and accept the ChimeraX license agreement themselves before using our software to conform to your requirements.
Best, Pat Rynkiewicz
On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 5:35 PM Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net mailto:goddard@sonic.net> wrote:
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 mailto: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!
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