Hi Satra
we did originally consider tracking usage in that way, but it seemed
invasive and a bit creepy to have FreeSurfer keeping track of what you
were up to and reporting back to us, so ultimately we decided not to
Bruce
On Fri,
18 Nov 2011, Satrajit Ghosh wrote:
hi nick,
i really like pedro's idea of tracking through instance tracking as opposed
to licenses. on a separate project we are setting up the ability to pull up
as many instances as necessary and install whatever software environment
that's needed to run your analysis. we'll try to ensure that each person has
a license file in their "folder" that we can pull.
however given the current licensing of freesurfer, one can easily remove the
license components. that's why i feel the instance tracking is painless and
provides you with a better estimate of the number of times freesurfer is
run. as an example, at mit we have a single license which everybody uses and
that's not a great way for you to track the number of projects or subjects
run through freesurfer.
cheers,
satra
2011/11/18 Nick Schmansky <ni...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Long term, after we put together an 'official' instance of the
AMI with
scripts (which might well be an instance that Pedro Paulo
created) I
think sftp'ing the .license file to each instance is the way to
go.
The .license file need only apply to the user (not each instance
or
run).
N.
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 08:00 -0800, Joshua Lee wrote:
> When I used the AMI, (maybe not Pedro's), so I sftp'd a
license file
> to each instance prior to running an analysis. Not a big deal.
I
> didn't get a new license for each instance, but copied the
same one to
> multiple instances.
>
> Joshua
>
> 2011/11/18 Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior
> <p...@netfilter.com.br>
> I have restored the image: 060244368407/FREESURFER51
>
>
> I'll create a web service that can log the number of
instances
> spawned. Is that ok with you?
>
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> 2011/11/18 Bruce Fischl <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
> Hi PPJ,
>
> I would rather people use FS without licenses
than
> find themselves unable to use it, so why not
leave it
> for now. Can you put a request that they first
> download a license or register on your
website?
> Alternatively, can you just remove the
.license file
> from the AMI forcing the users to get one?
>
> thanks for making this available
> Bruce
>
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Pedro Paulo de Magalhães
Oliveira
> Junior wrote:
>
>
> As requested I removed the AMI image
because
> that image contains a .license file.
> I can republish the image when we find
a
> solution for the licensing issue.
>
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> 2011/11/15 Joshua Lee
<jki...@ucdavis.edu>
> It would be great if Freesurfer
> maintained an official AMI. One
important
> reason to do so is security. If the
> AMI is maintained by the
organization,
> then people can feel reassured that
their data
> is not being downloaded to
> a compromised instance, not that
any on
> this board would have such malicious
intent.
> Moreover, it could contain
> such scripts as makes the
analysis
> process easier.
>
> -
> Joshua Lee
> Graduate Student
> Center for Mind and Brain &
> Department of Psychology
> University of California, Davis
> 530.747.3805
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>
> 2011/11/14 Pedro Paulo de Magalhães
Oliveira
> Junior <p...@netfilter.com.br>
> Ok. I'll label as private this
AMI that
> has .license file.
> Maybe we can make a tutorial on how to
create
> an AMI instead.
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> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 21:07, Nick
Schmansky
> <ni...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Glad to hear it works well. To
revisit
> the issue of the license (in the
> form of the .license file which
needs to
> be in the $FREESURFER_HOME
> directory and the request of
which is
> used for usage tracking), I think
> the convention to follow for any
publicly
> available AMI freesurfer
> instances should be to not
include
> a .license file with it, so as to
> force the download of this file
(so that
> freesurfer usage will be
> tracked). A user need only do
this once
> for however many times they use
> the cloud instance.
>
> N.
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