[Insight-developers] [ITK Community] Remote modules License

[Luke Bloy]

Thanks for taking a look Matt and Brian,

For simplicity, I've just relicensed the code in question to an apache 2.0
license, but i think these are questions that will need to be worked
through if Remote modules become an important part of the toolkit.

-Luke


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Brian Helba <brian.helba at kitware.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Part B of the license in question (
> http://www.rad.upenn.edu/sbia/software/license.html ) is what applies to
> taking their code and using it as part of an ITK remote module. It appears
> at first glance to be a permissive open-source license, but I think someone
> certainly needs to examine a diff between it and Apache 2.0.
>
> I'm wondering about a possible complication from Part A, which is a
> contributor license agreement (CLA) for contributing code back upstream. If
> improvements to the library in question are made by ITK, it would be best
> if those could be easily contributed back upstream; if we can't do this,
> then the library gets forked and it's much more difficult to incorporate
> updated versions from upstream. From the text of Part A, it looks as though
> any of ITK's modifications, being Apache 2.0 is enough per se to meet the
> requirements of their CLA. However, if their CLA requires an individual to
> sign any documents (it doesn't appear to) or for some entity to provide the
> code with a warranty (which section 6 does) beyond Apache 2.0's "no
> warranty whatsoever", there could be problems.
>
> Perhaps I'm being too pedantic, but it's an angle that I think should be
> evaluated. For a remote module, I think ITK could include it regardless,
> but it would be good to know the answers to these questions.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Luke Bloy <luke.bloy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Matt,
>>
>> Do people think this license (
>> http://www.rad.upenn.edu/sbia/software/license.html ) would have any
>> issues? My belief is that it is based strongly off apache 2.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>> Luke
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Matt McCormick <
>> matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Luke,
>>>
>>> There has been considerable work into keeping the repository
>>> patent-free and minimize copyleft licenses (see the CMake warning when
>>> FFTW support is enabled, which is off by default).
>>>
>>> The preferred license is Apache 2.0 with copyright assigned to the
>>> Insight Software Consortium, like the rest of the toolkit.  Other
>>> BSD-style licenses should well work, too.
>>>
>>> I personally would be fine with most other licenses, too, for a Remote
>>> Module, but it also depends on the input of other members of the
>>> community.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Luke Bloy <luke.bloy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Are there any license requirements for being considered for inclusion
>>> as a
>>> > remote module?
>>> >
>>> > Luke
>>> >
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