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

[Dave Weis]

Volunteering for a non profit is more difficult than selling service. They
have zero skin in the game and expect you somewhere between Iron Man and
Harry Potter.

Pick up cans until you can afford the license.


On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Brett Neese <brneese at brneese.com> wrote:

> 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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