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= 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://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090114-nokia-qt-lgpl-switch-huge-win-for-cross-platform-development.html|now LGPL]]||
||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:
 * [[http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Licensing|ITK Release 4/Licensing]]
 * [[http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html|Applying the Apache License, Version 2.0]]
 * [[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://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing/|Qt video on licensing]]
 * [[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]]
 * [[http://nipyworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/gpl-license-is-artefact-of-war.html|The GPL license is a artefact of war]]
 * [[http://nipy.sourceforge.net/nipy/stable/faq/licensing.html|NIPY license selection]]
 * [[http://teem.sourceforge.net/lgpl.html|Teem: About the LGPL]]