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Licensing Issues

A table of the licensing information for the freesurfer 3rd-party libraries, gathered from the Fink website, which is where source for each package originates (except the MNI tools), is here:

Package	License
Qt	QPL
GSL	GPL
tiff	BSD
jpeg	OSI-Approved
Tcl/Tk	BSD
Tix	OSI-Approved
BLT	BSD
GLut	Restrictive/Distributable
freeglut	OSI-Approved
MNI	see FREESURFER_HOME/docs/license.minc

References:

Fink Packaging Policy
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Licensing
Navigating Open Source Licensing
Open Source Licensing by Lawrence Rosen
GPL or LGPL
Software Licensing, Treating Patients, and NA-MIC, Steve Pieper, PhD
Qt QPL vs. GPL license
GSL is Free Software
The gpl-violations.org project

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-Here is the licensing information, gathered from the Fink website, which
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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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||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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+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]]