[Insight-developers] ITKv4 : LICENSE Changed to Apache 2.0 : PATENTED Removed.

[Luis Ibanez]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:

>
> 2) Regarding the code that lies in Code/Patented. Did any of the
>> inventors actually contributed to it? If so, I guess that we need to
>> get rid of it before making the license change effective.
>> http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html#patent
>> Am I understanding it correctly?
>>
>>
>
> Yes you are understanding it correctly.
>
>
> For the methods in the Patented directory,
> such licenses have not been granted at this point.
>
> Therefore, files that implement methods known to be
> covered by a patent will be removed from ITKv4.
>
> Patented methods will be welcome as long as the patent
> assignee provides permission to use them under the terms
> defined by the Apache 2.0 License:
>
>
> Namely:
>
>  http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Licensing#Patents
>
>
> *"3. Grant of Patent License.*
>
> *Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor
> hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge,
> royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license
> to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer
> the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable
> by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s)
> alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such
> Contribution(s) was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against
> any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging
> that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes
> direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted
> to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such
> litigation is filed."*
>
>
> We will remove the "Patented" directory
> from the Git repository in the following days.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


Hi Tom:

The source code from Patented directories
has now been removed from the Git repository:

http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=commitdiff;h=f7a67a9d775b3fb21aa331cb52cd81808b79e812



       Regards,


               Luis
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