#Chemdoodle doesnt work software#
#Chemdoodle doesnt work license#
#Chemdoodle doesnt work free#

Embedded ChemDraw files in MSoffice 2010 Word (2012).ChemDraw and Word on WindowsД¬hemDraw and Word have a long history together, and it hasn't always been smooth sailing. Although most widely-used and best-understood system has for years been ChemDraw and Word on Windows, many other combinations have been tried with varying degrees of success.

#Chemdoodle doesnt work software#

Three major pieces of software come into play for round trip editing: (1) the structure editor (2) the word processor and (3) the operating system (mainly through its system clipboard). This article is a short compilation of some of the round trip editing problems that have been reported while trying to get structure editors and word processors to play nice together. The process of moving a chemical structure or drawing from a structure editor to a word processor and back is called 'round trip editing'. To make this happen, the structure editor and word processor need to work together, despite not being specifically designed to do so. In particular, written communication taking the form of reports, patents, and publications very often requires both a structure editor (e.g., ChemDraw) and a word processor (e.g., Word).Дuring preparation of a document, it's essential that the graphical chemistry content be just as editable as the text itself.

#Chemdoodle doesnt work free#

Academics should feel confident using the ChemDoodle Web Components knowing that it is free and open, and also that there is quality support and development behind the product.Chemical Structure Copy and Paste Problems T00:00:00.000ZД¬hemical structure editors play a vital role in chemistry today as a bridge between chemists and their software. So to make a long story short, only commercial entities that wish to profit off the ChemDoodle Web Components will encounter licensing issues if they choose not to GPL their product, no one else will. It will not affect the licensing of Jmol. Similar to a company using OpenBabel or MySQL internally. In this case, the GPL is perfectly suited for such companies as there is no redistribution involved. There is also another commercial case, where the ChemDoodle Web Components are used for internal products that are not distributed to the public (such as a pharmaceutical company making a private molecule browser for its own employees). If we could not sell our software, then we would have been required to find different jobs long ago and this high quality product would not exist. Remember, our income is fully dependent on the sales of our software.

And I think everyone agrees that if one profits off your hard work, you deserve some compensation. In this case, they always come to us for proprietary licensing, which comes at a fee. Of course, commercial institutions will never want to do this. In that case, the liberal exception does not apply, and the GPL will cover everything the ChemDoodle Web Components is integrated with, including proprietary products and Jmol. The only case where licensing would become an issue is for commercial use of the ChemDoodle Web Components. The only request I have is that users acknowledge that they use the ChemDoodle Web Components. So for academics, the ChemDoodle Web Components can be used with Jmol without any issues.

#Chemdoodle doesnt work license#

The liberal exception states that in the case of non-commercial use (such as academic) the GPL license will not extend past the ChemDoodle Web Components code.

The GPL v3 license states that anything the software is integrated with must also be released under GPL. The ChemDoodle Web Components are distributed under the GPL v3 license with a liberal exception: Since ChemDoodle has a different license, some explanation is advisable (following text provided by Kevin Theisen, from iChemLabs, LLC, the makers of ChemDoodle):Д¬hemDoodle Web Components licensing is very compatible with Jmol. This new library (Jmol ChemDoodle extension) allows to offer rendering formats alternative to Jmol, using the independent ChemDoodle Web Components software, that does not use Java applets, but HTML5 and/or WebGL technologies to display in devices like tablets and smartphones. Note: Support for integration of the Jmol ChemDoodle extension has been abandoned.