[ITK-dev] LSQR (and related VNL code) Licensing Issues - fix lost

[Matt McCormick]

Following up, this issue was addressed in this patch:

  http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/21296/

and pushed upstream here:

  https://github.com/vxl/vxl/pull/337

It will be included in the ITK 4.10.1 release.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Tom Vercauteren <tom.vercauteren at m4x.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Sorry for the cross-posting but this refers to an issue linking both ITK and
> VNL.
>
> In 2010, we identified a licensing issue with some code from vnl and at the
> time Luis Ibanez fixed it from the ITK side:
> https://issues.itk.org/jira/browse/HISTITK-1160
>
> Luis notably rewrote the LSQR code:
> https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/tree/release-3.20/Utilities/vxl/v3p/netlib/linalg
> http://svn.na-mic.org/NAMICSandBox/trunk/SparseLinearSolverConversion/C++/
> https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/commits/release-3.20/Utilities/vxl/v3p/netlib/linalg
>
> It seems that this effort was not backported to VXL and was subsequently
> lost when moving to ITK 4:
> https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/tree/master/Modules/ThirdParty/VNL/src/vxl/v3p/netlib/linalg
>
> It would be great if someone could look into this (important) licensing
> issue.
>
> For the only purpose of LSQR, I copied the LSQR NAMICSandBox code in a
> standalone github repo here:
> https://github.com/tvercaut/LSQR-cpp
>
> I have also added a comment in the ITK and VXL bug trackers:
> https://issues.itk.org/jira/browse/HISTITK-1160
> https://github.com/vxl/vxl/issues/332
>
> Best wishes,
> Tom
>
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