[Cialug] Free Academic License... Not..

[Josh More]

Nah, just volunteer for a non-profit organization in exchange for them
getting you the license.

Lots of nonprofits need IT help.

-Josh

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Experts on Everything,
>
> So, this is barely relevant besides that it's one of these things that run
> on Linux/MySQL, but still, it has some licensing issues that some of you
> may have run into (and perhaps gotten around).
>
> There is this great software called Pathway Tools
> <http://bioinformatics.ai.sri.com/ptools/> used to access a fabulous gene
> and metabolic pathways database called BioCyc <http://biocyc.org/>.  The
> database is free but the Lisp API requires a free academic license.
>
> The academic license requires you to be a member of an academic or
> non-profit organization.  As has worked in the past, I made a case that I
> am an independent developer not working in a commercial capacity but the
> BioCyc guys didn't go for it.
>
> I'd hate to give up so easily.  Should I take a class at the local
> university and con them into using the software?  Find a biology student to
> help?  Escalate it to higher people at SRI <https://www.sri.com/> who make
> the stuff?  Start a non-profit?  Do you guys know anybody who is part of a
> biology oriented non-profit organization who would share their software?
>
> -Todd
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