[Insight-developers] Copyright Transfer Tracking Wiki Page : & QMesh

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Gaetan,

Yes,
we intent to move many contributions from the Insight Journal
into ITK.

It will be great to find a way to streamline the copyright
transfer process, so that authors don't have to do it over
and over again.


      We are open to suggestions on how to do that.


One options that comes to mind is to have your institution
provide a "blanket" Copyright Transfer where they authorize
you to transfer source code Copyright to the ISC at your own
discretion. If we have such agreement in place, then it will
be enough for you to decide what pieces of code you want to
select for transferring their copyright to the ISC.

There may be other good mechanisms...

You may want to get the advice of the person responsible for
intellectual property issues at your institution.

Please let us know what you find.


    Thanks


      Luis



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Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
> 
> Luis,
> 
> Is there some plan to integrate other contributions in ITK ? I would 
> like  to avoid multiplicating the procedures.
> 
> I would like to read "yes", but if there isn't such a plan please just  
> tell me "no" :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gaetan
> 
> 
> Le Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:56:26 +0100, Luis Ibanez 
> <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>  a écrit:
> 
>> Hi Gaetan,
>>
>> Thanks for checking on the Copyright Transfer Wiki page.
>>
>> It will be great if you can complete the copyright transfer process.
>>
>> My memory is that Stephen Aylward and a contact at INRA agreed
>> on the terms of the copyright transfer statement, but I don't recall
>> what happened after that.
>>
>> It is quite important to clarify this issue as soon as possible.
>>
>> I just updated the Wiki page according to what you described
>> in your email. Please feel free to modify it if I missed anything.
>>
>>
>> In the future we must be very careful not to include in ITK
>> any files for which we don't have a Copyright Transfer or a
>> license agreement that is compatible with the BSD-like
>> license used by ITK.
>>
>>
>> Failling to do so will bring ITK in conflict with both our Open Source
>> community (e.g. Linux distributions and public funding institutions)
>> as well as the commercial institutions that use ITK for research and
>> development.
>>
>>
>> We appreciate the effort that you put in clarifying the copyright
>> transfers.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Regards,
>>
>>
>>        Luis
>>
>>
>>
>> ============================================
>> On 11/29/06, Gaetan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Luis, Josh,
>>>
>>> I see my name on that page, but I have never sent any copyright  
>>> transfer -
>>> I can't remember why, but the process has stopped at some point
>>> I'll ask for the copyright transfer for my code already integrated 
>>> in  ITK.
>>> I think there is:
>>> * wrapitk - note that Zach is the coauthor, so it might be a little more
>>> complex
>>> * ModulusImageFilter
>>> * InvertIntensityImageFilter
>>> * ReconstructionByDilationImageFilter and
>>> ReconstructionByErosionImageFilter
>>> * MorphologicalGradientImageFilter
>>>
>>> Please let me know if I have forgotten something, or if there is 
>>> some  plan
>>> to integrate some other things from the insight journal before the next
>>> release, so I can ask for the copyright transfer only once.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Gaetan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:43:38 +0100, Luis Ibanez  
>>> <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Hi Josh,
>>> >
>>> > Could you please confirm if you received the
>>> > Copyright transfer letter from Alex Gouillard ?
>>> >
>>> > In order to streamline the tracking of this process
>>> > I just created a Wiki page that stages the tracking
>>> > of the copyright transfer process. The idea is to
>>> > keep in a central place the status of copyright
>>> > transfers.
>>> >
>>> > The page is linked from the Oversight Committee page:
>>> >
>>> >    http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Oversight_Committee#Copyright_Transfers
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > its direct link is:
>>> >
>>> >    http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Copyright_Transfers_Status
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Please let us know if you would like to modify this
>>> > initial draft of the Copyright Transfer Tracking page.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Any suggestions are welcome.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     Thanks
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >        Luis
>>> >
>>> > _______________________________________________
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>>> > http://www.itk.org/mailman/listinfo/insight-developers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Gaëtan Lehmann
>>> Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction
>>> INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
>>> tel: +33 1 34 65 29 66    fax: 01 34 65 29 09
>>> http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr
>>>
> 
> 
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