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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2007 - 13:15:37 CDT

Hi,
  The plugin tree (with only one or two exceptions) is already
provided under the UIUC Open Source License:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/pluginlicense.html

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:12:15PM -0400, nmichaud_at_jhu.edu wrote:
>
> I was wondering if the VMD developers would be interested in releasing the
> DCD reading header files (such as readdcd.h, endianswap.h, fastio.h) under
> an opensource license (such as LGPL). I've written an analysis tool in
> python (inspired by MDTools) that allows me to write scripts (or even work
> interactively in Ipython) to perform many of the same geometric analysis
> possible in CHARMM and VMD. Basically the module allows one to extract out
> coordinate data into Numeric python arrays and then do any desired
> processing, such as timeseries, orientation functions, order parameters,
> etc.
>
> I would like to release this library for general use, but the core of the
> library wraps molfiles' dcd reading code, which I believe from reading the
> copyright header are not redistributable. Thanks.
>
> Naveen
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Naveen Michaud-Agrawal
> Program in Molecular Biophysics
> Johns Hopkins University
> (410) 614 4435 

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