[Insight-developers] Licencing question about insighttoolkit

[Steve M. Robbins]

Dear Olivier,

You raise a valid question.  I'm forwarding this to the ITK developers
for comment.

Thanks,
-Steve


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:09:48AM +0100, Olivier Robert wrote:
> 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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