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This is to confirm very publicly that CCP4 libraries (of which APIs is one example) are open source and free to use. There are no plans to change this and, on contrary, there is a common consensus that it should stay as is. Eugene On 7 Aug 2013, at 19:16, Jeffrey, Philip D. wrote: > Are all the APIs open source ? I was under the impression that CCP4 had moved away from that, which might justifiably reduce interest in any limited-availability API. > > Phil Jeffrey > Princeton > ________________________________________ > From: CCP4 bulletin board [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of James Stroud [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 1:51 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] mmCIF as working format? > > On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Eugene Krissinel wrote: >> I just hope that one day we all will be discussing a sort of universal API to read/write structural information instead of referencing to raw formats, and routines to query MX data, which would be more appropriate than grep (would many SB students/postdocs use grep these days? but many if them would need to inspect files somehow). This, in essence, is similar to discussing read/write primitives in C/C++/Fortran rather than I/O functions of BIOS and HDD/BUS commands that they drive. > > I just want to reinforce this point by quoting it verbatim and also emphasize that it was not lost on some of us. > > In the long term, the MM structure community should perhaps get its inspiration from SQL, which focuses on the scope of data and the semantics its manipulation, rather than how the data is encoded beneath the surface. > > James -- Scanned by iCritical.