[Insight-users] redistribution questions

[qing xu]

Hi Luis,

Thank you for your suggestion.You are right, it seems that there is little 
difference between incorporting part of or all of the itk source code. Maybe 
I will just keep using the binary form of itk.
Thanks a lot.

Qing



>From: "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
>To: "qing xu" <qingxu8 at hotmail.com>
>CC: insight-users at itk.org
>Subject: Re: [Insight-users] redistribution questions
>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 13:28:40 -0400
>
>Hi Qing,
>
>Yes, I'm suggesting that you should include all of ITK with your project.
>
>It will be rather difficult to extract only the classes that you are using,
>although it is not impossible.
>
>You should ask yourself, what is the purpose of adding to your project
>the code from ITK ?
>
>Why not just say that you distribute the code, and that it should be
>build using ITK version X.Y. ?
>
>Keep in mind that we make ITK releases every three monts,
>so, by extracting code from ITK you will also face the challenge
>of updating your version of the code to new releases of ITK.
>
>This may o may not be a problem, depending on who are
>the recipients of the code that you are delivering, and how
>you are going to maintain that code for the next five to
>ten years.
>
>
>       Regards,
>
>
>           Luis
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>On 8/6/07, qing xu <qingxu8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Luis,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your reply.
> >
> > I use the 3d versor rigid registration part of ITK, and now I want to
> > incorporate the source code of ITK to my project. So, first, I have to
> > figure out what files in ITK are related to the functions I am using. 
>What
> > I
> > am doing now is to check the header files to see what must be included 
>to
> > implement the registration.  But it seems that there are so many files
> > related to the registraiton part, is there a easy way to do that?  Are 
>you
> > suggesting that I should include all the ITK source codes to my project?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Qing
> >
> >
> > >From: "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
> > >To: "qing xu" <qingxu8 at hotmail.com>
> > >CC: insight-users at itk.org
> > >Subject: Re: [Insight-users] redistribution questions
> > >Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:12:42 -0400
> > >
> > >Hi Qing,
> > >
> > >Yes, you are allowed (and encouraged)
> > >to redistribute ITK's source code.
> > >
> > >Why are you finding difficult to pack all the code ?
> > >
> > >You can just take the tar or .zip file corresponding
> > >to the ITK release that you are using.
> > >
> > >The tar/zip files are available at:
> > >
> > >     http://www.itk.org/HTML/Download.php
> > >
> > >You could also just use the cvs export command
> > >and if you are using a particular CVS version of ITK.
> > >
> > >
> > >   Regards,
> > >
> > >
> > >       Luis
> > >
> > >
> > >===========================
> > >On 8/6/07, qing xu <qingxu8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am currently considering incorporating itk source code to my
> > project.
> > >I
> > > > read the copyright notice and seems that it allows me to 
>redistribute
> > in
> > > > source code form. But it seems not trivial to find all the related
> > >source
> > > > code files. Anyone has done the similar thing? Any suggestion is
> > >welcome.
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Qing
> > > >
> > > >
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