[Insight-users] [Bioimagexd-devel] Bio-Formats in ITK

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Pasi,

It looks like with BioImageXD we are definitely going over to Java in the
> end of the year. We have a team that's been working on the Java version for
> several months already, and so far we have encountered no major problems, so
> it seems likely the transition will take place. We are also building in
> support for Bio-Formats as we speak (into the Java version), and that also
> seems to be going nicely.
>

Cool, please let me know if you have any questions or problems with
Bio-Formats.

About copyrights and licenses. In Finland copyright holders in the Academia
> depend on the funding sources. Previously it was almost always the
> researchers themselves, but there is an increasing tendency to shift this
> towards the universisities having the copyrights. In the case of BioImageXD
> copyrights are held by us developers for the most part, but for some parts
> that are developed with a particular type of funding we share the copyrights
> with the universities. For these parts BSD is not an option, because at
> least my university does not accept it. GPL, however, is ok. Therefore also
> the whole of BioImageXD is under GPL. We do have the option, however, to
> license parts of the software or even full parallel versions differently.
> This is the situation right now. We are currently undergoing negotiations
> for continued funding that may imply different strategies, and also the
> legal position of the universities in Finland in general is about to change
> later this year. So next year the situation may already be different.
> All in all juggling with all the different rules and regulations and
> funding sources is a pretty tough job at times...
>

Yep, licensing is a pain. Bio-Formats also must stay GPL, which
unfortunately will make it challenging to distribute with ITK.

-Curtis

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Pasi Kankaanpää <pkanka at utu.fi> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Without going into any details just a couple of quick comments:
>
> It looks like with BioImageXD we are definitely going over to Java in the
> end of the year. We have a team that's been working on the Java version for
> several months already, and so far we have encountered no major problems, so
> it seems likely the transition will take place. We are also building in
> support for Bio-Formats as we speak (into the Java version), and that also
> seems to be going nicely.
>
> About copyrights and licenses. In Finland copyright holders in the Academia
> depend on the funding sources. Previously it was almost always the
> researchers themselves, but there is an increasing tendency to shift this
> towards the universisities having the copyrights. In the case of BioImageXD
> copyrights are held by us developers for the most part, but for some parts
> that are developed with a particular type of funding we share the copyrights
> with the universities. For these parts BSD is not an option, because at
> least my university does not accept it. GPL, however, is ok. Therefore also
> the whole of BioImageXD is under GPL. We do have the option, however, to
> license parts of the software or even full parallel versions differently.
> This is the situation right now. We are currently undergoing negotiations
> for continued funding that may imply different strategies, and also the
> legal position of the universities in Finland in general is about to change
> later this year. So next year the situation may already be different.
> All in all juggling with all the different rules and regulations and
> funding sources is a pretty tough job at times...
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi Kankaanpää
> BXD design lead
>
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