[Insight-developers] Re: ITK 3.0 : FREEZING CVS : Starting Friday Oct 27th : Copyright Issues :

[Vincent A. Magnotta]

Luis,

The Copyright transfer for the files Common/itkOctreeNode.{cxx,h} was
sent to Josh at the end of the September. I missed changing the
Copyright in these files. Can you change the copyright notice in these
files to reflect this? 

I would also suggest moving Code/IO/itkAnalyzeDbh.h to the
Utilities/itkExtHdrs/itkAnalyzeDbh.h. I had spoken to David Holmes at
MICCAI and he did not think there would be an issue allowing this to be
distributed in a form that would be compatible with ITK. The file should
retain the Mayo Copyright. I will follow-up with David on this.

Vince


On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:32 -0500, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> I'm tracking on the history of the file:
> 
>        Insight/Code/Numerics/FEM/dsrc2c.c
> 
> This file was originally distributed along with VXL
> (up to ITK release 2.8) in the directory:
> 
>        Insight/Utilities/vxl/v3p/netlib/dsrc2c.c
>        Insight/Utilities/vxl/v3p/netlib/dsrc2c.f
> 
> The file was removed from VXL on July 17 2006, as part of the
> conversion that Brad did for making vxl thread safe.
> 
> When it was realized that the file was needed in ITK, and it
> was not available anymore in VXL, the file was added directly
> to the ITK repository, at the current location:
> 
>        Insight/Code/Numerics/FEM/dsrc2c.c
> 
> This was done on July 25 2006.
> 
> 
> You are right on the file being copyrigthed by IMSL, INC,
> and lacking a description of a license that allows its
> distribution.
> 
> The original file is at:
> 
>      http://www.netlib.org/itpack/dsrc2c.f
> 
> and also lacks any license information there...
> both the file, and so it goes for the entire
> directory.
> 
> 
> 
> Googling for IMSL Inc. I got to Visual Numerics:
> 
>      http://www.vni.com/products/imsl/
> 
> 
> I just send email to Visual Numerics' Technical support,
> but it may take a while before they respond.
> 
> 
> Plus considering that IMSL is actually a commercial product,
> I'm guessing that our best course of action is to remove
> this files from ITK and to deprecate the ITK classes that
> use it. We will be doing this as part of the release.
> 
> It is a bit drastic, from the point of view of backward
> compatibiliity, but our BCP policy cannot ignore the
> copyright laws.
> 
> 
> 
>      Regards,
> 
> 
>        Luis
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Steve Robbins wrote:
> > Hello Luis et al.,
> > 
> > I did not get enough time this weekend to sit down and examine the ITK
> > sources thoroughly.  However, I did go through everything in Code/ and
> > some issues remain.
> > 
> > The most distressing is Numerics/FEM/dsrc2c.c; this is copyright by IMSL
> > with no license to distribute.
> > 
> > The files Common/itkOctreeNode.{cxx,h} still have the Iowa MH-CRC copyright
> > with no permission grant, and IO/itkAnalyzeDbh.h still has Mayo copyright
> > with no permission grant.
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>:
> > 
> >> The pieces of code that had licenses conflicting with ITK
> >> have been removed from the CVS repository.
> >>
> >> A manifesto of the different Copyrights included in ITK
> >> was added in the file:
> >>
> >>          Insight/Copyright/README.txt
> >>
> >> If you have a chance, please take a look at this file and
> >> let us know if you encounter any issues that could prevent
> >> ITK from being included in a Debian distribution.
> > 
> > 
> > This file appears to be a work-in-progress.  It is full of notes
> > like:
> > 
> >  2) AnalyzeDB.h:  Vincent is requesting permission to the Mayo
> >                   Clinic for transfering the copyright to ITK.
> >                   Otherwise, a license statement is needed, to
> >                   make clear that ITK can distribute it.
> > 
> >  4) OctreeNode:   Vincent will transfer copyright to the ISC.
> > 
> > 
> > I presume that this file with be edited once the copyright transfers have
> > been effected.  Do you expect this to be done before ITK 3.0 is released?
> > 
> > The netlib directory has a load of items listed under it with minimal
> > or no information.  I'll have a look at them later, but I'm guessing that
> > you haven't had time to go through them, either, meaning there are likely
> > more issues lurking.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > -Steve
> > 
> > 
> 
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