[Ctk-developers] COPYRIGHT & LICENSING

[Ron Kikinis]

Luis,

The apache license sounds reasonable to me. In terms of making ISC the 
owner of the copyright:
As you know, we have taken a different approach with Slicer in that the 
contributors keep the copyright and only grant an irrevocable and 
unlimited license for use in Slicer (I am not a lawyer so this is not 
legal language).

On an other point: ISC was created to hold the copyright for ITK. The 
website does not really reflect the more recent additions of cmake and 
IGSTK. The board of directors primarily reflects ITK and would probably 
require some updates.

One question: how "dictator proof" is ISC?

Ron



On 4/9/10 10:36 AM, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> 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
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Ron Kikinis, M.D.,
Robert Greenes Distinguished Director of Biomedical Informatics
Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Surgical Planning Laboratory
http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~kikinis