Copyright © 1997-1998 Per Kraulisunless otherwise noted. There is no copyright on the example files.
MolScript is owned by Per Kraulis, and is marketed on his behalf by Avatar Software AB, which is also owned by him. Per Kraulis is currently employed by Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc (P&U), but Per Kraulis' ownership of, and right to market MolScript has been established in a special agreement between Per Kraulis and P&U.
Companies and for-profit institutions must buy the program for a fee. A license is required. See the Official MolScript Web Site for the current price.
bison (GNU's
equivalent of yacc) was used to develop the program, it
is not required to compile the program, since the C source code files
produced by bison from the molscript.y file
are included in the distribution.
See the MolScript Official Web Site for current information on how to obtain the program.
MolScript will compile with just the code that is included in the distribution. This gives the basic implementation which can output PostScript, Raster3D and VRML 2.0 files.
If your computer systems supports OpenGL rendering, then an interactive window output implementation can be compiled. This also requires the GLUT library by Mark Kilgard. Also, the OpenGL implementation allows several different image file output formats to be produced. Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS) and SGI (aka RGB) image files are supported without any additional software. The JPEG and PNG image formats require the corresponding libraries.
None of these additional libraries are included in the MolScript distribution. You must fetch them and install them yourself.