{"id":36,"date":"2008-03-14T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T12:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/bioclipse-pirated\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T12:24:03","slug":"bioclipse-pirated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/bioclipse-pirated\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioclipse pirated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infocomlaboratories.com\" target=\"_blank\">InfoCom,<\/a> located in Arizona, advertises  a product called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infocomlaboratories.com\/ibiotech.htm\" target=\"_blank\">iBioTech<\/a> , which by all evidence is identical with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioclipse.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bioclipse<\/a>. They say their iBioTech product has a plugin for chemoinformatics call &#8220;bc_cdk&#8221; (surprise :-)) and one called &#8220;bc_jmol&#8221; for 3D visualization.<\/p>\n<p>While this is something that we have explicitly <strong>not<\/strong> tried to prevent; still it is kind of appalling to see it happen.  My personal expectation on having my\/our code being used by others was always that they would offer additional services and still acknowledge the original authors.<\/p>\n<p>The case that we are currently seeing includes renaming and the pretension that the prodcut has been created by them (citation: iBioTech <strong>from<\/strong> InfoCom laboratories). The question here is of course: Is this covered by the Bioclipse license or not.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised that my first two attempts to dig into the Bioclipse license led into nowhere. There was no such thing as a LICENSE file in the top level directory in bioclipse trunk. The next thing to do was to look at the code of net.bioclipse.BioclipsePlugin.java, which in my opinion should contain a header clearly stating the license for this code. Nothing there.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, the Bioclipse website has  a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioclipse.net\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=49&amp;Itemid=22\" target=\"_blank\">full coverage of the license issues<\/a> with Bioclipse. I would clearly say that the redistribution of a number of parts of Bioclipse, including CDK, requires the distributor to make it clear to the customer where the source code is available, which then automatically implies giving proper credit.<\/p>\n<p>My feeling is that this is a case to further investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company called InfoCom, located in Arizona, advertises a product called iBioTech , which by all evidence is identical with Bioclipse. They say their iBioTech product has a plugin for chemoinformatics call &#8220;bc_cdk&#8221; (surprise :-)) and one called &#8220;bc_jmol&#8221; for 3D visualization. While this is something that we have explicitly not tried to prevent; still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13,7,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioclipse","category-blue-obelisk","category-open-science","category-open-source","category-scientific-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}