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

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Vincent,

Thanks a lot for following on this.

I will modify the copyright notice of the itkOctreeNode files,
and will move teh itkAnalyzeDBh.h files to the Utilities directory
as you advice.


    Thanks


      Luis


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Vincent A. Magnotta wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>