[Insight-developers] ITK not redistributable: copyright statement incomplete

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Steve,


We just added a README.txt file to the directory:


               Insight/Copyright/


That summarizes the current status of known Copyrights
in the Insgitht Toolkit distribution.

This is just for keeping track of the status in a way
that is more convenient than email.



As you pointed out, there are many pending issues, and
we are working to resolve them...


We anticipate that the situation should be very clear
by the time we release ITK 3.0.



This should also be a great occasion for getting rid
of patented code that contaminates the toolkit.



We will appreciate to hear from you if you find any other
Copyright issues in ITK that may have escaped to our first
pass.




About netlib.... it is a lot of fun.... there are about
ten packages under the netlib directory... So we are going
one by one listing them into the README.txt file...



--


    Can you gives some guidelines (or point us to an
    appropriate URL) on the Debian policies for stating
    the copyright + licenses of packages ?

    We probably should create a checklist for future
    contributions to the toolkit.




    Thanks



       Luis




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Steve Robbins wrote:
> Hello Luis,
> 
> I'm encouraged by your rapid and robust response.  I think the  
> Consortium will have no trouble fixing these oversights.
> 
> I want to re-iterate, however, that my list is incomplete.  I stopped  
> checking once it was clear that Debian cannot accept ITK as-is.   
> Moreover, I was grepping for copyright notices in the source and  
> headers; I did not check for files *missing* copyright and license  text 
> altogether.
> 
> So more work is needed.  I'm willing to keep looking when I have time,  
> but I'm more than happy to split the work with others!  ;-)
> 
> 
> Quoting Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>:
> 
>> 6)  Utilities/vxl/v3p/netlib:  Netlib and IMSL stuff, no license
>>
>>                  This one is surprisingly tricky. The web site:
>>
>>                                www.netlib.org
>>
>>                  has very sparse information about copyrights and
>>                  licensing. There is however a LAPACK Debian
>>                  package already, so we probably only need to
>>                  add credits to netlib here...
> 
> 
> Maybe; however, there's a note at the bottom of  
> http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/master/readme.html which reads:
> 
>     Also, the restrictions on copyright, commercial use, etc. vary;
>     check each directory for details.
> 
> I didn't actually have a look at what is in vxl/v3p/netlib.  If it  
> includes LAPACK, then why not simply remove it and use the vendor  LAPACK?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> -Steve
> 
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