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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: OFFIS DICOM Team <> Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:53 PM Subject: Re: dicomscope ready for upload To: Mathieu Malaterre <> Cc: Charles Plessy <>, Klaus Kleber <> Hi Mathieu, sorry for the late reply ... > We are having some issue on the packaging of DICOMScope. I thought I could > redistribute it under the following license: > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/dicomscope/trunk/debian/copyright Unfortunately, it's not that easy and we are aware of the fact that the license/copyright of DICOMscope is a kind of gray area. For the C/C++ part of DICOMscope which is identical to certain modules of the DCMTK, it's pretty easy because the license/copyright is well-documented in the COPYRIGHT file. For the Java part of DICOMscope, the license/copyright is the one you've cited (although the copyright date should be something like "1999-2003"). Maybe, Klaus (see CC) can further comment on that because he was one of the main developers of the Java part. > But upon inspection, Charles discover this is not as clear as it seems to > me(*). Would you mind clearing that for us ? >> I had a look at the sources of DICOMscope and its homepage, and did not >> find any mention of its redistribution rights. Since this is in sharp >> contrast with DCMTK, and since there is a big disclaimer on the >> homepage warning that DICOMscope is a proof of principle not meant for >> clinical use, I think that we can not assume that it is >> redistributable. We need Upstream to properly give a license to it if >> we want to distribute it in Debian. The disclaimer on the website, in the about box and the user manual of DICOMscope does not mean that the software should not be redistributed. It's just a warning to the user in order to make clear what the purpose (intended use) of this software is (and what it is not). So, maybe you should add this disclaimer somewhere to the Debian package documentation. Does this help? Regards, Jörg Riesmeier -- OFFIS DICOM Team, Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany E-Mail: di...@offis.de, URL: http://dicom.offis.de -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
