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From: Roland Schulz (roland_at_utk.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 04 2009 - 08:13:37 CDT

Hi,

is our understanding correct that the 10% clause in VMD is not GPL
compatible?

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From: Erik Lindahl <lindahl_at_cbr.su.se>

1) We need to be able to distribute the code as GPL/LGPL (instead of a
combination of licenses). The 10% clause probably doesn't fly with this,
since the one could imagine 10 different people copy 10% each, distribute as
GPL, then somebody else (who gets it under strict GPL, where there cannot be
side clauses) merges it and has the original code under GPL.
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If so, is there a chance that you could release a PluginMgr equivalent
example code under a GPL compatible license (e.g. University of Illinois
Open Source License). That would allow other GPL software packages to easily
use the VMD plugins.

Roland 

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