Hi Ira,
thanks for your mail and that you found time to work down to the stack
of old correspondences. We just noticed the web site change which is
reflected on our so called "tasks-page"
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/oncology
where we are assembling those targets we want to include into Debian.
Well, having an entry on this tasks page is one step, but now somebody
has to do the technical work. So there is no guarantee that prism will
make its way into Debian in the near future - but we are positive that
there will be some interest in using Free Software in oncology and with
the raise of interest we might get more people who are doing the work
(or pushing hard on us to set it on a higher priority than other free
medical software).
Please keep us updated about new things in Prism - preferably over
debian-med@lists.debian.org to make sure all interested people will get
the message. (So I stripped some private bits from your mail and post
the pure technical part to the list. I also made sure that your mail
address will not be uncovered to spammers and putted you in BCC.)
So thanks for your notice and please keep us informed.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Ira Kalet wrote:
Dear Andreas,
I was looking over some old emails and found this correspondence. In
the 7 years that have passed, I did some work to remove dependencies of
Prism on OpenGL and on any code whose provenance we did not know. Also
the web page has moved. The new link is
http://www.radonc.washington.edu/research/cancer-informatics/prism/
The web page now explicitly says that the code is licensed under the
Lisp Lesser GNU Public License, which I hope is sufficient for your
purposes. The documentation source may still require a few extra LaTeX
files but I will try to track this down. I plan to move it all to a
more stable web site than the current one, which is now out of my control.
If you are still interested in this let me know.
Ira Kalet
On 04/14/2004 10:49 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hello,
I've got a hint to your Prism package which is available at
http://www.radonc.washington.edu/medinfo/prism/
This package would nicely fit into the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because we do internal efforts for programs which are useful in
medical care:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/
The home page is refering to a license statement in the documentation
in addition to the statement:
Except where noted, the documentation and code may be freely used
for non-profit educational use.
I was not able to find a more detailed copyright statement easily available.
I'd suggest to put a file COPYING or LICENSE in the base directory of
your source tarball. To the statement above I have to admit that while
Debian is a volunteer organisation which does make any profit we do not
know our users. It is often used in non-profit educational use but also
very often for commercial purpose. That's why we have to regard Prism
as non-free according to our social contract which is available at
http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
because it conflicts with item 5. and 6. I would try to find somebody
who is willing to package Prism for Debian but as I explained it can only
go into our non-free section. But to decide whether this is possible we
need a more detailed license.
Some hints for the documentation: I tried to rebuild the DVI file from
source and noticed that the files
profile.tex - seems to provide the macros \function and \variable
copyright.tex - obviousely the copyright notice are missing
The reason why I was trying to rebuild is that normally Debian packaging
trys to build all possible things from source. This would save disk space
if we would not ship PS, PDF and DVI files (and no remainings from the
latex and makeindex run). Moreover I would provide the images at least as
eps ('convert<file>.ps<file>.eps') which would reduce the file size drastically
if not even use PNG and go with pdflatex.
Thanks for providing this useful piece of software
Andreas Tille
Debian GNU/Linux developer