License/Copyright issues (was Re: dicomscope ready for upload)
Charles,
Do you consider this is ok then ? Looking at the C++ code however,
this is not clear that DCMTK copyright applies:
$ head -n 35 interface/libsrc/DSRWaveformValue.cpp
/*
*
* Copyright (C) 2000-2003, OFFIS and Institute for MicroTherapy
*
* This software and supporting documentation were developed by
*
* Kuratorium OFFIS e.V.
* Healthcare Information and Communication Systems
* Escherweg 2
* D-26121 Oldenburg, Germany
*
* and
*
* University of Witten/Herdecke
* Department of Radiology and MicroTherapy
* Institute for MicroTherapy
* Medical computer science
*
* Universitaetsstrasse 142
* 44799 Bochum, Germany
*
* http://www.microtherapy.de/go/cs
* mailto:computer.science@microtherapy.de
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS MADE AVAILABLE, AS IS, AND THE INSTITUTE MAKES NO
* WARRANTY REGARDING THE SOFTWARE, ITS PERFORMANCE, ITS MERCHANTABILITY
* OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR USE, FREEDOM FROM ANY COMPUTER DISEASES
* OR ITS CONFORMITY TO ANY SPECIFICATION. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO QUALITY
* AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH THE USER.
*
* Author : $Author: $
* Last update : $Date: $
* Revision : $Revision: $
* State: $State: $
*/
I can change the debian/copyright, but the ftp-master will be a bit
surprise that the debian/copyright does not reflect what upstream is
saying. With those machine readable format it is uneasy to specify
that...
As for the Java license, grepping in the source indeed reflect there
are a couple of different copyright. I think I can use the following
one :
* Copyright (C) 1999-2003, Institute for MicroTherapy and OFFIS
candidates:
$ grep -rh Copyright * | sort | uniq
# Copyright (C) 1998-2003, OFFIS
* Copyright (C) 1999..2000, Institute for MicroTherapy and OFFIS
* Copyright (C) 1999-2003..2002, Institute for MicroTherapy and OFFIS
* Copyright (C) 1999-2003, Institute for MicroTherapy
* Copyright (C) 1999-2003, Institute for MicroTherapy and OFFIS
* Copyright (C) 1999-2003, OFFIS and Institute for MicroTherapy
* Copyright (C) 1999, Institute for MicroTherapy
* Copyright (C) 2000-2003, OFFIS and Institute for MicroTherapy
* Copyright (C) 2000, Institute for MicroTherapy
* Copyright (C) 2001-2003, OFFIS and Institute for MicroTherapy
-Mathieu
For reference the private exchange:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:53 PM, OFFIS DICOM Team <dicom@offis.de> wrote:
> 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: dicom@offis.de, URL: http://dicom.offis.de
>
>
--
Mathieu
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