[IGSTK-Developers] Qt License

[Stephen R. Aylward]

If it helps, ISC is a non-profit, educational, consortium.   That is, it 
is specifically considered an educational entity and thereby granted 
non-profit status when it was given a tax identification number in the 
State of New York.

Stephen

Patrick Cheng wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Here is the summary of the email exchange with Qt licensing lawyer:
> http://public.kitware.com/IGSTKWIKI/index.php/Qt_Licensing_issue
> 
> We will discuss alternative ways of dealing with the Qt license in the 
> next tcon.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> --------
> I first talked to Qt sales office, and he gave me an academic discount 
> for about half off the installation price, but the annual maintenance 
> fee is still the same. That's pretty expensive.
> 
> I asked two questions about the educational license, since it's free:
> 
>    1. Will Georgetown be qualified to use the educational license?
>    2. Will the educational license allow Georgetown to release the 
> package under our open source non-GPL license?
> 
> The answers are both "NO"
> 
> This is complicated:
> 
>     * Georgetown is the PI of the project
>     * Kitware is hosting and distributing the physical code
>     * Frank developed and submitted the original code
>     * Insight Software Consortium has the copyright of the IGSTK code
> 
> Here are some questions:
> 
>    1. So which party should have the commercial license to release the 
> code?
>    2. Who should have the license to be able to modify the code?
>    3. What's the other option to avoid the legal dispute?
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