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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://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090114-nokia-qt-lgpl-switch-huge-win-for-cross-platform-development.html|now LGPL]]|| |
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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://nipy.sourceforge.net/software/license/johns_bsd_pitch.html#johns-bsd-pitch|Why we should be using BSD]] * [[http://producingoss.com/en/license-quickstart.html|Choosing a License and Applying It]] * [[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]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licenses|Comparison chart]] |
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 |
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tiff |
BSD |
jpeg |
OSI-Approved |
Tcl/Tk |
BSD |
Tix |
OSI-Approved |
BLT |
BSD |
GLut |
Restrictive/Distributable |
freeglut |
OSI-Approved |
MNI |
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