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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 01 2021 - 22:26:19 CST

you can always produce binaries for just the plugin to be loaded
dynamically, which is not causing any licensing issues.
I've been distributing a plugin for a (now obsolete) HOOMD file format
separately (because it required an additional library)
with Linux and Windows binaries for many years.

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 5:47 AM FX <fxcoudert_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John, hi VMD users,
>
> I am wondering if it would be possible to include the CIF molfile plugin,
> that I tried to contribute, in the alpha builds? I have met many colleagues
> would say it would be useful to them. I know there were questions because
> it uses C++11, but I am sure at least on macOS Intel and ARM (where the
> system compiler supports C++11 since macOS 10.9, released 7 years ago) the
> dependency would not be a problem.
>
> PS: I would gladly make the effort to distribute such builds myself, but
> this would be in violation of the VMD license :(
>
> Best regards,
> FX
>
> --
> Dr. François-Xavier Coudert
> Senior Researcher / Directeur de Recherche CNRS at Chimie ParisTech
> Professeur attaché ENS / PSL University
> Webpage:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.coudert.name/__;!!DZ3fjg!vkU2nNUOVBtIl5dauRx0eItH6gR5rwwCbGWFQpd9_R3c6LrbexhCXtXZemZuhbAZ9A$
>
>
>
> > Le 4 avr. 2020 à 18:10, FX <fxcoudert_at_gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Attached is an updated version of the CIF molfile plugin, which is
> improved in several ways:
> >
> > - it can read multiple groups (frames) from the same CIF file, if they
> have the same number of atoms
> > - it ignores leading groups with zero atoms (usually used for comments,
> for example in files from the ICSD database)
> > - it can now write coordinates in CIF format
> >
> > I’d love to get feedback from users about it, but I don’t really know
> how. If you use my 64-bit macOS build, you can find the compiled plugin
> here (
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/0bq444sympgqm42/cifplugin.so.gz?dl=0__;!!DZ3fjg!vkU2nNUOVBtIl5dauRx0eItH6gR5rwwCbGWFQpd9_R3c6LrbexhCXtXZemYVfikqrQ$
> ), download it, and install it inside the app (put it inside the VMD app
> bundle, so its path is "VMD
> 1.9.4a38.app/Contents/vmd/plugins/MACOSXX86_64/molfile/cifplugin.so”)
> >
> > Maybe once it gets into the official “alpha” builds from VMD, we can get
> more testing exposure. Not sure what the timeline is for a future build, or
> for a 1.9.4 release.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > FX
> >
> > --
> > Dr. François-Xavier Coudert
> > Senior Researcher / Directeur de Recherche CNRS
> > at the Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris
> > Professeur attaché ENS / PSL University
> > Webpage:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.coudert.name/__;!!DZ3fjg!vkU2nNUOVBtIl5dauRx0eItH6gR5rwwCbGWFQpd9_R3c6LrbexhCXtXZemZuhbAZ9A$
>
> 

-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://goo.gl/1wk0__;!!DZ3fjg!ofmzhFhG8C3BwF8gpySDnOAniGk_IT312ZS6K8Idm0T2wGpaAqXCkuDyj3bPMq8CpQ$ 
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.