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Here is the licensing information, gathered from the Fink website, which
is where source for each package, except the MNI tools, were downloaded:

see http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/policy.php#licenses
A table of the licensing information for the freesurfer 3rd-party libraries, gathered from the [http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/policy.php#licenses Fink website], which
is where source for each package originates (except the MNI tools), is here:
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||Qt||GPL||
||GSL||GPL||
||Qt||[ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/LICENSE.QPL QPL]||
||[http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/#licensing GSL]||[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL]||
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||MNI||see [http://minerva:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/dev/distribution/docs/license.minc?rev=1.1;content-type=text%2Fplain FREESURFER_HOME/docs/license.minc]||
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||MNI|| || References:
 * [http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/policy.php#licenses Fink Packaging Policy]
 * [http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ Open Source Initiative (OSI) Licensing]
 * [http://www.sitepoint.com/article/open-source-licensing Navigating Open Source Licensing]
 * [http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm Open Source Licensing by Lawrence Rosen]
 * [http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gsl-discuss/2000/msg00076.html GPL or LGPL]
 * [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/images/a/ae/NA-MIC-2005-10-30-Licencing.ppt Software Licensing, Treating Patients, and NA-MIC, Steve Pieper, PhD]
 * [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/169 Qt QPL vs. GPL license]
 * [http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/GSL-is-Free-Software.html#GSL-is-Free-Software GSL is Free Software]
 * [http://gpl-violations.org The gpl-violations.org project]

Licensing Issues

A table of the licensing information for the freesurfer 3rd-party libraries, gathered from the [http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/policy.php#licenses Fink website], which is where source for each package originates (except the MNI tools), is here:

Package

License

Qt

[ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/LICENSE.QPL QPL]

[http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/#licensing GSL]

[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL]

tiff

BSD

jpeg

OSI-Approved

Tcl/Tk

BSD

Tix

OSI-Approved

BLT

BSD

GLut

Restrictive/Distributable

freeglut

OSI-Approved

MNI

see [http://minerva:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/dev/distribution/docs/license.minc?rev=1.1;content-type=text%2Fplain FREESURFER_HOME/docs/license.minc]

References:

Licensing (last edited 2012-03-26 16:58:01 by NickSchmansky)