[Insight-developers] ITK Licenses & Ohloh

[Luis Ibanez]

Looking at the Ohloh page of ITK
https://www.ohloh.net/p/itk/analyses/latest

There seems to be a number of incorrect license assignments.

Ohloh lists:

18 LGPL Files
14 Simplified BSD
3 BSD
1 GPL

Tracking these licenses by using the ohcount tool reveals the
following (different) list:

../ohloh/ohcount/bin/ohcount -l ~/src/Insight
lgpl    Insight/Code/Common/itkMersenneTwisterRandomVariateGenerator.h
lgpl    Insight/Utilities/gdcm/gdcmConfigure.h.in
bsd    Insight/Utilities/itktiff/tif_lzw.c
bsd_2clause_ish    Insight/Utilities/openjpeg/j2k_lib.h
bsd_2clause_ish    Insight/Utilities/openjpeg/image.c
bsd_2clause_ish    Insight/Utilities/openjpeg/event.h
bsd_2clause_ish    Insight/Utilities/openjpeg/image.h
bsd_2clause_ish    Insight/Utilities/openjpeg/j2k_lib.c
bsd_2clause_ish    Insight/Utilities/openjpeg/event.c
bsd_2clause_ish    Insight/Utilities/openjpeg/openjpeg.c
bsd_2clause_ish    Insight/Utilities/openjpeg/opj_includes.h


It seems that ohcount mainly parses the text for regular
expressions that look like licenses.

The first two LGPL reports are false hits.
One is a comment to the time when GDCM was distributed
under the LGPL license. While the other is a comment
about the time when the Mersenne Twister generator code
was moved from LGPL to BSD.


To avoid confusion I suggest that we remove both comments
as soon as the repository opens after the release of ITK 3.14.


    Luis
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