[Insight-developers] ITK not redistributable: copyright statement incomplete

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Steve,



              We appreciate your efforts.



It is still a good idea for us to review what kind of
copyrights are currently in the toolkit.




Here is the status of the offending files:


  1) DICOMParser:  We are testing an experimental build in which
                   this files are removed. This is a deprecated
                   set of files that can be removed before ITK 3.0

  2) AnalyzeDB.h:  Vincent is requesting permission to the Mayo
                   Clinic for transfering the copyright to ITK

  3) PixelData:    GE Copyrights,
                   Vincent is contacting the providers of this
                   code too.

  4) OctreeNode:   Vincent will transfer copyright to the ISC.

  5) ThresholdMaximumConnectedComponents: Ken Urish is sending
                   the copyright transfer form to Josh Cates.
                   The copyfight has already been fixed in the
                   CVS repository.


  6) Netlib:       More on netlib at the end of this email...


  7) The triangle.c/h and showme.c files have been removed.
                   Their copyright/license was incompatible with
                   ITK and their functionality was not needed.
                   These removed the "itknetlib" library.


  8) itk_hash_map:  It has copyrights by SGI and HP, but the license
                   is consistent with BSD-like. So we simply need
                   to acknowledge those in our general copyright.

  9) itkMersenneTwisterRandomVariateGenerator:
                 Copyright: Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura,
                 Copyright: Richard J. Wagner
                 under a BSD-Like license.

  10) Code/Numerics/FEM/dsrc2c.c :

                 Copyright: 1977 IMSL Inc, no license !!


  11) Code/Numerics/cvsrmvend

                 Copyright:  Greg A. Woods
                 "Freely distributable"
                 I guess that counts as BSD...
                 Easy to remove if it becomes a problem,
                 This is just a script for making easier
                 the CVS syncs of VXL.

  12) Testing/Code/IO/itkIOHeaderTest.cxx:

                 Copyright: National Library of Medicine !!!
                 Actually this is created by the Tcl script

           Insight/Utilities/Dart/BuildHeadrTests.tcl

                 A fix has been commited for this file...

   13) Testing/Code/Numerics/NeuralNetworks:

                 Copyright: CADDLab at UNC
                 Fixed now in CVS --> ISC



Utilities:


   A) JPEG      :  Thomas G Lane ( BSD-Like)
                :  DCMTK : OFFIS... and many others... but BSD-Like


   B) OpenJPEG  :  Universite Catholique de Louvain:  BSD license


   C) NrrdIO      :  Gordon Kindlmann and  University of Utah
                   BSD-Like license. Clarifies that the original
                   package "Teem" (not in ITK) is still under GPL license


   D) NIFTI     :  No copyright ?
                   There is no mention of licensing nor copyright
                   at the NIFTI Web site:

                       http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1

                   However at http://niftilib.sourceforge.net it
                   appears as "public domain" license!!, but in
                   its subdirectory matlibs it has a GPL license.
                   its subdirectory jlibs is public domain
                   its subdirecotry clibs is public domain


      in ITK it has a subdir:
      fsliolib  :  From the FSL package:
                   University of Oxford: NO FOR COMMERCIAL USE

                        This code has been removed !


   E) EXPAT     : Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper.
                  with BSD-Like license


   F) PNG       : Copyright: Glen Randers-Pehrson
                             Andreas Dilger
                             Guy Erc Schalnat


   G) TIFF      : Copyright Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics


   H) GDCM      : Copyright: CREATIS:

   I) ZLIB      : Copyright:  Mark Adler

   J) kwsys     : Copyright: Kitware : BSD-Like License



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Steve Robbins wrote:
> Hello Luis,
> 
> I'm encouraged by your rapid and robust response.  I think the  
> Consortium will have no trouble fixing these oversights.
> 
> I want to re-iterate, however, that my list is incomplete.  I stopped  
> checking once it was clear that Debian cannot accept ITK as-is.   
> Moreover, I was grepping for copyright notices in the source and  
> headers; I did not check for files *missing* copyright and license  text 
> altogether.
> 
> So more work is needed.  I'm willing to keep looking when I have time,  
> but I'm more than happy to split the work with others!  ;-)
> 
> 
> Quoting Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>:
> 
>> 6)  Utilities/vxl/v3p/netlib:  Netlib and IMSL stuff, no license
>>
>>                  This one is surprisingly tricky. The web site:
>>
>>                                www.netlib.org
>>
>>                  has very sparse information about copyrights and
>>                  licensing. There is however a LAPACK Debian
>>                  package already, so we probably only need to
>>                  add credits to netlib here...
> 
> 
> Maybe; however, there's a note at the bottom of  
> http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/master/readme.html which reads:
> 
>     Also, the restrictions on copyright, commercial use, etc. vary;
>     check each directory for details.
> 
> I didn't actually have a look at what is in vxl/v3p/netlib.  If it  
> includes LAPACK, then why not simply remove it and use the vendor  LAPACK?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> -Steve
> 
> 
>