[Insight-developers] VXL : Toms library : ACM Copyright : non-commercial license

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Mathieu,

Thanks for letting us know about this issue.

The code in question must be removed from ITK,
whether it is compiled or not.

Its license is not compatible with ITK license,
and therefore, the code has to go.

Note that the code is actually brought into ITK via
VXL. So, ultimatetly, the VXL developers should
consider removing this code from VXL, since it is
not compatible with the VXL license either.

I'll start an Experimental build with this code removed,
to evaluate the impact, and we should know soon
how much code has to be removed, and if needed:
replaced.

We will make sure to do this before we cut ITK 3.18.


     Thanks


             Luis


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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
<mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
> [see below]
>
> If the code is not compiled it should be removed from ITK, right ?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Olivier Robert <poutifar at gmx.com>
> Date: Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:20 AM
> Subject: [Debian-med-packaging] Licencing question about insighttoolkit
> To: debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm contacting the Debian-Med Packaging Team because I would to ask a
> question about the licence of a routine used in the insighttoolkit.
> I'm not a user of insighttookit and have no personal interest in that
> package, but I'm actually trying to package another software named
> eispice (http://www.thedigitalmachine.net/eispice.html) which uses the
> same particular routine.
> So I hope you can help me on that subject.
>
> Insighttoolkit incorporates third party libraries taken from the "ACM
> Collected Algorithms"
> http://www.netlib.org/toms/
> My question is about one file in particular:
> insighttoolkit-3.16.0/Utilities/vxl/v3p/netlib/toms/rpoly.f
> The copyright notice as shown on http://www.netlib.org/toms/ indicates:
> "Use of ACM Algorithms is subject to the ACM Software Copyright and
> License Agreement"
> which is futher explained on:
> http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/softwarecrnotice/
> From what I understand, this licence grants the right to execute,
> copy, modify and distribute the code and the binary only for
> non-commercial use. But for commercial use, you have to get the
> authorisation from the authors.
>
> Considering this situation, I would like to know how you solved this
> licence issue concerning insighttoolkit, so that I can benefit from
> your experience.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Olivier Robert
>
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>
> --
> Mathieu
>