[Ctk-developers] COPYRIGHT & LICENSING

[Luis Ibanez]

Yes,
it is not the most amusing conversation to have,
but it is better to do this early...


   1) Most files in CTK are lacking Copyright
       notices and an explicit License.

   2) There is not LICENCE file at the top of
       the source tree.



I propose that we assign the copyright of the source code
to the Insight Software Consortium (ISC), and that we
distribute the code under an Apache 2.0 License.

  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php



The ISC is the organization that holds the copyright of

          *  ITK
          *  CMake (along with Kitware)
          * IGSTK


More information about the ISC at:

    http://www.insightsoftwareconsortium.org/


It will also be important for your respective organizations
to join the ISC, or for you to join as individuals, so you
help ensure that the CTK project is managed as you
intended.


Every day that passes without having a clear License
and Copyright statement is a day were we are brewing
a recipe for disaster.



If someone needs to be persuaded, we can provide details
on the horror story of how much trouble we are having in ITK
with source code of dubious origin (no copyright notice nor
license) that we adopted from   www.netlib.org....



      Luis