[Ctk-developers] Fwd: Contribution to PythonQt

Tue Oct 18 14:02:31 EDT 2011

Thanks for your feedback. Will keep you posted on progress.
Jc

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Steve Pieper <pieper at ibility.net> wrote:

> I agree on the licensing issue - no problem.
>
> Great work,
> Steve
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Julien Finet <julien.finet at kitware.com>wrote:
>
>> It makes sense to me. The requirement of the Apache 2 license is for
>> CTK only. Whatever goes to other libs (Slicer, DCMTK...) should follow
>> their licenses.
>> Who can do the most can also do the least :-)
>> j.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
>> <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Folks,
>> >
>> > Florian Link, from MeVisLab, has been very responsive and, less than
>> 24hours
>> > following my initial email, already provided me with feedback regarding
>> the
>> > possible integration of our CTK specific changes. See below.
>> >
>> > Its only concern regards the license associated with two of the file I
>> added
>> > to PythonQt. I added them using CTK license.
>> >
>> > Being the author of the files, I have no problem switching the license
>> to
>> > LGPL so that our contribution can be merged upstream.
>> >
>> > 1) I would like to make sure we all agree.
>> >
>> > 2) Discuss the licensing of contribution associated with our
>> contribution to
>> > LGPL libraries.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your feedback,
>> > Jc
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Florian Link <florian.link at mevis.de>
>> > Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:02 AM
>> > Subject: Re: Contribution to PythonQt
>> > To: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com>
>> > Cc: info at mevislab.de, Dominique Belhachemi <domibel at debian.org>
>> >
>> >
>> > Dear Jean-Christophe,
>> >
>> > I had a look at your changes. I suggest the following:
>> >
>> > - the warnings/small unicode fixes are not a problem and can be merged
>> > easily
>> > - the VTK wrapping should be done by supporting class wrapping callbacks
>> in
>> > PythonQt,
>> >   so that the VTK wrapping code can be located outside of PythonQt
>> >   (I can add those callbacks). You will then have to register your VTK
>> > wrapping callbacks where you initialize PythonQt.
>> > - the std in redirection makes sense and can be merged
>> > - the generator fixes/warnings are ok and can be merged
>> > - the dPython.h file seems to be a special fix that you did, this should
>> be
>> > switchable, since some people want a debug Python with using debug
>> PythonQt.
>> >
>> > This leaves us with the licensing issue. I can only accept code that you
>> > submit under the LGPL 2.1, so the Apache 2 license is
>> > not an option (I don't want PythonQt to get multi-license). Since this
>> only
>> > regards dPython.h and PythonQtStdIn*,
>> > I guess you do not have a problem with submitting those under LGPL 2.1?
>> >
>> > regards,
>> > Florian
>> >
>> > Am 17.10.2011 16:49, schrieb Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin:
>> >
>> > Dear MevisLab / PythonQt developers,
>> >
>> > My name is Jean-Christophe, R&D engineer at Kitware Inc., and I am
>> actively
>> > involved in the development of Slicer 4.0, a medical multi-platform,
>> free
>> > open source software for visualization and image computing.
>> >
>> > While working on Slicer, a lot of code has been contributed to the open
>> > source toolkit named CTK. The Common ToolKit (CTK) provides a unified
>> set of
>> > basic programming constructs that are useful for medical imaging
>> > applications development. More information are available here:
>> > http://www.commontk.org
>> >
>> > PythonQt being the python scripting "backend" of CTK, we added some code
>> and
>> > we would like to contribute back.
>> >
>> > Dominique Belhachemi, a volunteer Debian packager, is helping us to
>> package
>> > both CTK and Slicer. He suggested that we contribute back our code so
>> that
>> > the currently existing PythonQt libraries/packages include our changes.
>> >
>> > The list of changes is available here:
>> > https://github.com/commontk/PythonQt/compare/svn-mirror...patched
>> >
>> > It includes:
>> >   - CMake'ification of the project
>> >   - Support for VTK python
>> >
>> > Would be great if you could let us know if that sounds like a reasonable
>> > idea or if we should improve anything.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Jc
>> >
>> > Cc: Dominique Belhachemi
>> >
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