[Insight-developers] Legal issues

[Mark Foskey]

In our discussion of the licensing issues, it seemed to me that the 
reason we need this is that we want to avoid the possibility of certain 
bad things happening, and it seemed further that we should keep track 
of what bad things we want to avoid.  This may play into what questions 
people need to ask the various lawyers.

Here is a list of *candidate* concerns.  I do not claim that all of 
them are ones we need to worry about, but they seem to be ones that 
have arisen as potential concerns.

1. One of the member institutions may try to lay claim to some 
component of itk, or some aspect of the coders' time, that would 
inhibit further development.

2. We would have no mechanism to get credit for the use to which itk is 
being put.  (Or perhaps the concern is that itk as a system wouldn't 
get credit.)

3. Others may fork off their own version of itk.  (I don't think this 
can be prevented anyway, if somebody wants to do it.  But I don't think 
it'll happen.)

4. Some of us may get sued for itk somehow.