[Ctk-developers] COPYRIGHT & LICENSING

[Bill Lorensen]

I agree with that license is more important that the copyright holders.

In VTK, many files have multiple copyrights, but all share the same license.

Bill

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Ron Kikinis <kikinis at bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 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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