[Insight-developers] Licence

[Alexandre GOUAILLARD]

Hi luis,

Thanks for all the details. I will definitly read the book.

The upper management decided to go for CC.

As you know the project will move to HMS next year. That could be a good
opportunity for us to reevaluate the licence and to switch to BSD/MIT.

As for ITK and any other NA-MIC tolkit we would contribute too, we would
contribute classes/widgets, so we would transfert the copyright to the
insight consortium using the usual way (as we did for QE).

If the work was done using a NAMIC grant, would there be any constraint on
the licence?

Thanks again, 

Alex "hanfei"

On 9/11/07 2:42 PM, "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> 
> The Creative Commons license is more intended for works of art
> than for source code (software), although the terms could probably
> be interpreted in the context of software.
> 
> ----------
> 
> See for example the definition of the "Work"
> 
> *"Work"** means the literary and/or artistic work offered under the
> terms of this License including without limitation any production in the
> literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or
> form of its expression including digital form, such as a book, pamphlet
> and other writing; a lecture, address, sermon or other work of the same
> nature; a dramatic or dramatico-musical work; a choreographic work or
> entertainment in dumb show; a musical composition with or without words;
> a cinematographic work to which are assimilated works expressed by a
> process analogous to cinematography; a work of drawing, painting,
> architecture, sculpture, engraving or lithography; a photographic work
> to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to
> photography; a work of applied art; an illustration, map, plan, sketch
> or three-dimensional work relative to geography, topography,
> architecture or science; a performance; a broadcast; a phonogram; a
> compilation of data to the extent it is protected as a copyrightable
> work; or a work performed by a variety or circus performer to the extent
> it is not otherwise considered a literary or artistic work.
> 
> 
> -----------
> 
> 
> We use the Creative Commons Attribution license for the text of papers
> posted to the Insight Journal, and we certainly have a very favorable
> view of this license.
> 
> 
> 
> Adopting a BSD or MIT license for your code will make a lot easier to
> move all or parts of it later into ITK, if we were to move it as an
> unmodified piece, the way we make use of TIFF, JPEG and VXL, for
> example.
> 
> 
> If we were to adopt pieces of your code, in the form of actual ITK C++
> classes that get integrated into ITK, at that point we will actually
> ask you for a *Copyright Transfer*, and once we have the copyright of
> that code we will be entitled to distributed under the ITK license.
> Of course we honor the credits to the authors of the code.
> 
> 
> That is, your choice of license only matters if you plan to implement
> your code as a "library" to be annexed to ITK in the Utilities
> directory. In that case, we will need your license to be compatible
> with the BSD-like license of ITK. Both the MIT and BSD license will
> work in that case.
> 
> For an excellent overview of Open Source Licenses you may want to
> look at Lawrence Rosen Book:
> 
>            http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm
> 
> 
> 
> Please let us know if you have other questions.
> 
> 
>       Thanks
> 
> 
>          Luis
> 
> --------------------------------
> Alexandre GOUAILLARD wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> We want our project to be open-source, and we would like to contribute to
>> ITK parts of it when possible.
>> 
>> Would the creative common licence (
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode) allows us to do that,
>> or shall we go for MIT/BSD licence?
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
>> 
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