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

[Brett Neese]

Seems like a good reason to get involved with https://area515.org/,
although I don't know if they have their 501(c)3 yet. :-)

Brett Neese
563-210-3459


On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> wrote:

> 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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