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What is the relationship between RasMol, Linux and the GPL?

April 26, 2017GPL linux RasMol relationship

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What is the relationship between RasMol, Linux and the GPL?

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RasMol 2.7 runs quite nicely under Linux. There are pre-compiled binaries of the 2.7 series to run under Linux. Starting with the RasMol 2.7.3 release, RasMol may be distributed under the GPL. However, earlier RasMol 2.7 releases are not covered by the GPL. Those RasMol 2.7 releases have their own “GPL-like” license (RASLIC, which carefully avoids certain issues which, until recently, would have caused problems if we had used the GPL for those releases. Those problems have now been resolved, and we can now use the GPL.