ITK/License Information

ITK License Information

• The copyright of ITK is held by the Insight Software Consortium
• ITK is distributed under a BSD License.
  • http://www.itk.org/ITK/project/license.html

Third Party Libraries

JPEG

• Thomas G Lane ( BSD-Like)
• DCMTK : OFFIS... and many others
• BSD-Like license

OpenJPEG

• Universite Catholique de Louvain
• BSD license

NrrdIO

• Gordon Kindlmann and University of Utah
• BSD-Like license.
• Clarifies that the original package "Teem" (not in ITK) is still under GPL license

NIFTI

• No copyright ?
• There is no mention of licensing nor copyright at the NIFTI Web site:
  • http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1
  • However at http://niftilib.sourceforge.net it appears as "public domain" license, but in its subdirectory matlibs it has a GPL license.
    • The matlibs subdirectory is not included in ITK.
• The subdirectory jlibs is public domain
• The subdirecotry clibs is public domain

EXPAT

• Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper.
• BSD-Like license

PNG

• Copyright: Glen Randers-Pehrson, Andreas Dilger, Guy Erc Schalnat
• License ?

TIFF

• Copyright Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics
• License ?

GDCM

• Copyright: CREATIS
• BSD-Like License

ZLIB

• Copyright: Mark Adler
• License ?

kwsys

• Copyright: Kitware
• BSD-Like License

DICOMParser

• Copyright by Matt Turek.
• Distributed under a BSD-Like license.

 [This work was funded by NLM so its copyright should probably be transfered to the ISC.]

AnalyzeDB.h

• The Mayo Clinic aggreed to distribute this file with ITK.
• Point of contact: Vincent Magnotta.
• The file was moved to Utilities/itkExtHdrs

PixelData

• GE Copyright,
• Vincent is contacting the providers of this code too.

6) Netlib:       Netlib is a conglomerate of packages. Each 
                 one having different copyrights and licenses.
                 Here is a listing of what is included inside
                 Utilities/vxl/v3p/netlib

   blas:         From www.netlib.org/blas :
   
   FAQ: The reference BLAS is a freely-available software package. 
   It is available from netlib via anonymous ftp and the World Wide Web. 
   Thus, it can be included in commercial software packages (and has been). 
   We only ask that proper credit be given to the authors.

   datapac:   Written by James Filliben, National Bureau of Standars.

          Our understanding is that the US Government cannot hold
          copyrights, therefore we assume that this code is in the 
          public domain.

   eispack:

   lapack:

   laso:

   libf2c:

   linalg:

   linpack:

   mathews:

   minpack:

   napack:

   opt:

   temperton:

   tests:

   toms:

7) The triangle.c/h and showme.c files have been removed.
                 Their copyright/license was incompatible with
                 ITK and their functionality was not needed.
                 These removed the "itknetlib" library.

itk_hash_map

 It has copyrights by SGI and HP, but the license
                 is consistent with BSD-like. So we simply need
                 to acknowledge those in our general copyright.

itkMersenneTwisterRandomVariateGenerator

               Copyright: Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura,
               Copyright: Richard J. Wagner
               under a BSD-Like license.

Code/Numerics/FEM/dsrc2c.c

               Copyright: 1977 IMSL Inc, no license available.
               Stephen Aylward removed the specific functions
               in this file that were copyrighted by IMSL and
               replaced them with other functions available in
               netlib. The file is now cleared from copyright
               concerns.

Code/Numerics/cvsrmvend

               Copyright:  Greg A. Woods
               "Freely distributable"
               I guess that counts as BSD...
               Easy to remove if it becomes a problem,
               This is just a script for making easier
               the CVS syncs of VXL.

Testing/Code/IO/itkIOHeaderTest.cxx

               Copyright: National Library of Medicine.
               Actually this is created by the Tcl script

         Insight/Utilities/Dart/BuildHeadrTests.tcl

               A fix has been commited for this file.

 13) Testing/Code/Numerics/NeuralNetworks:

               Copyright: CADDLab at UNC
               Fixed now in CVS --> ISC