[Insight-developers] ITK 3.0 & Copyright Issues

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Steve;

Here is the status of the copyright issues that you pointed out
this morning.


1) itkOctreeNode files: The copyright has been transferred to the
       Insight Software Consortium, and the headers of these two
       files have been modified accordingly in CVS


2) The itkAnalyzeDbh.h file was moved to Utilities/itkExtHdrs
    The copyright is still held by the Mayo Clinic, but we have
    verbal permission to distribute it.


3) The files

          Insight/Code/Numerics/FEM/dsrc2c.c
          Insight/Code/Numerics/FEM/dsrc2c.f

    have now been removed from the repository along with its ITK
    wrapper the

           itkFEMLinearSystemWrapperItpack.cxx
           itkFEMLinearSystemWrapperItpack.h

    Their traces have been removed from the FEM framework,
    in particular from the FEMRegistrationFilter.

    This linear solver has now been replaced with the
    DenseVNL linear solver.

    It is likely that the FEM deformable test will fail tomorrow,
    we will need to fine tune this solver for the conditions of
    deformable registration.




This cleanup should leave us in a clearer situation regarding
Copyrights.



Please let us know if you encounter any other anomalies.
We will clean them swiftly.


Otherwise, we anticipate to tag the release of ITK 3.0
tomorrow, of course, depending on the state of the
Dashboard.



    Thanks



      Luis



======================
Steve Robbins wrote:
> Hello Luis et al.,
> 
...
> 
> 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
> 
>