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Many thanks for switching to MIT license for InChI! I believe such change in licensing will benefit everyone.
While looking at what is on InChI GitHub repository, I noticed some licensing notation inconsistencies.
First of all, in the source released as v1.07-beta.3, a lot of source files still bear the old copyright notice:
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the IUPAC/InChI Trust InChI Licence No.1.0,
* or any later version.
In strict sense individual file copyright notices override the top-level copyright indication. Would it be possible to replace there notices with ones mentioning MIT, or removing them altogether?
Second, in the source released as v1.07-beta.3 there is a file INCHI-1-SRC/LICENCE.pdf with the old InChI license. The existence of such file creates some ambiguity over the true license of the source.
Third, other source releases such as v1.06 now bear the new license statement in LICENSE file. Assuming this does not mean that previous InChI releases are now relicensed, the existence of this file in the earlier releases may as well cause some confusion over the true license of the source.