That seems fine to me. Charles any comments ? Will they need to upload another zip file containing this new license, to avoid any misunderstanding ?
Thanks, On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM, OFFIS DICOM Team <di...@offis.de> wrote: > Dear Charles and Mathieu, > > yesterday, I talked to Klaus (by phone). He agreed to add the attached > COYPRIGHT file to the "dsgui360.zip" source code package of DICOMscope. > > Would this solve the discussed license issue? > > Regards, > Jörg Riesmeier > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Betreff: Re: dicomscope ready for upload > Datum: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:02:26 +0200 > Von: OFFIS DICOM Team <di...@offis.de> > An: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> > CC: Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malate...@gmail.com>, Klaus Kleber > <kle...@visus-tt.com> > > Dear Charles, > >> thank you for pointing us at the identity of the C/C++ part of DICOMscope >> with >> DCMTK. Since there is no COPYRIGHT file in DICOMscope, I assume that the >> one >> you refer to is >> ftp://dicom.offis.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/dcmtk/dcmtk354/COPYRIGHT, >> which >> confirms that Debian has all the permissions it needs. > > correct, although the DICOMscope source code might require an older release > of the DCMTK (see user manual for details). > >> For the Java part it would help if you could confirm that we have >> permission to >> redistribute and modify the program, because if we interpret the wording >> strictly (which you probably guess we do), it is just signalling that the >> software is made available to us without explaining what we can do. You >> can see >> as example most licenses in the COPYRIGHT file, which have clauses like >> “free >> access is hereby granted as a license to use this software, copy this >> software >> and prepare derivative works based upon this software”. > > I understand, however, since the Java part has been developed by another > group (Institute for Microtherapy, Bochum) we have to wait for the answer > from Klaus Kleber (now with the company VISUS-TT) who receives a copy of > this email but is currently out of office (AFAIK). > > As you can read on the web page http://dicom.offis.de/dscope.php.en, > DICOMscope has originally been developed as a reference implementation (or > prototype if you like) of various new extensions of the DICOM standard. The > development was commissioned (and sponsored) by the NEMA Committee for the > Advancement of DICOM. Further extensions have been developed for the IHE > MESA CPI test environment (see http://www.ihe.net/). > A requirement for all these software development projects was that the > source code should be available to the public (at the end of the respective > project). However, it seems that we forgot to specify what this means in > practice - at least for the Java and other non-DCMTK part. > > 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
