[Insight-developers] Re: patented code

[Simon Warfield]

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>
>Just for the record, the following are some of the
>algorithms whose "Patented" status need to be discussed:
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>       A - Fuzzy Connectedness
>       B - Marching Cubes
>       C - Iterative Closest Point (ICP)
>       D - Active Shape Models
>
My understanding is that some aspects of the `demon's registration' 
algorithm are patented.
Also the use of correlation ratio for rigid and affine transformations: 
6,539,127 Electronic device for automatic registration of images

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One open source license that is explicit about patents is the so-called 
Common Public License:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-cplfaq.html

 IBM, Intel and Microsoft, amongst others,  have open source projects 
using this license.

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