[Ctk-developers] Fwd: Contribution to PythonQt

[Steve Pieper]

I agree on the licensing issue - no problem.

Great work,
Steve

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Julien Finet <julien.finet at kitware.com>wrote:

> It makes sense to me. The requirement of the Apache 2 license is for
> CTK only. Whatever goes to other libs (Slicer, DCMTK...) should follow
> their licenses.
> Who can do the most can also do the least :-)
> j.
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
> <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Florian Link, from MeVisLab, has been very responsive and, less than
> 24hours
> > following my initial email, already provided me with feedback regarding
> the
> > possible integration of our CTK specific changes. See below.
> >
> > Its only concern regards the license associated with two of the file I
> added
> > to PythonQt. I added them using CTK license.
> >
> > Being the author of the files, I have no problem switching the license to
> > LGPL so that our contribution can be merged upstream.
> >
> > 1) I would like to make sure we all agree.
> >
> > 2) Discuss the licensing of contribution associated with our contribution
> to
> > LGPL libraries.
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback,
> > Jc
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Florian Link <florian.link at mevis.de>
> > Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: Contribution to PythonQt
> > To: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com>
> > Cc: info at mevislab.de, Dominique Belhachemi <domibel at debian.org>
> >
> >
> > Dear Jean-Christophe,
> >
> > I had a look at your changes. I suggest the following:
> >
> > - the warnings/small unicode fixes are not a problem and can be merged
> > easily
> > - the VTK wrapping should be done by supporting class wrapping callbacks
> in
> > PythonQt,
> >   so that the VTK wrapping code can be located outside of PythonQt
> >   (I can add those callbacks). You will then have to register your VTK
> > wrapping callbacks where you initialize PythonQt.
> > - the std in redirection makes sense and can be merged
> > - the generator fixes/warnings are ok and can be merged
> > - the dPython.h file seems to be a special fix that you did, this should
> be
> > switchable, since some people want a debug Python with using debug
> PythonQt.
> >
> > This leaves us with the licensing issue. I can only accept code that you
> > submit under the LGPL 2.1, so the Apache 2 license is
> > not an option (I don't want PythonQt to get multi-license). Since this
> only
> > regards dPython.h and PythonQtStdIn*,
> > I guess you do not have a problem with submitting those under LGPL 2.1?
> >
> > regards,
> > Florian
> >
> > Am 17.10.2011 16:49, schrieb Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin:
> >
> > Dear MevisLab / PythonQt developers,
> >
> > My name is Jean-Christophe, R&D engineer at Kitware Inc., and I am
> actively
> > involved in the development of Slicer 4.0, a medical multi-platform, free
> > open source software for visualization and image computing.
> >
> > While working on Slicer, a lot of code has been contributed to the open
> > source toolkit named CTK. The Common ToolKit (CTK) provides a unified set
> of
> > basic programming constructs that are useful for medical imaging
> > applications development. More information are available here:
> > http://www.commontk.org
> >
> > PythonQt being the python scripting "backend" of CTK, we added some code
> and
> > we would like to contribute back.
> >
> > Dominique Belhachemi, a volunteer Debian packager, is helping us to
> package
> > both CTK and Slicer. He suggested that we contribute back our code so
> that
> > the currently existing PythonQt libraries/packages include our changes.
> >
> > The list of changes is available here:
> > https://github.com/commontk/PythonQt/compare/svn-mirror...patched
> >
> > It includes:
> >   - CMake'ification of the project
> >   - Support for VTK python
> >
> > Would be great if you could let us know if that sounds like a reasonable
> > idea or if we should improve anything.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jc
> >
> > Cc: Dominique Belhachemi
> >
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