Re: Please consider relicensing maxflow 3.0 as free software
Dear Vladimir,
that's a very cool and quick move.
Many thanks for this
Andreas.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 02:37:50PM +0100, Vladimir Kolmogorov wrote:
> Dear Gert,
>
> I have put it under GPL (see version 3.03 on my homepage).
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir.
>
> On 03/17/2014 04:03 PM, Gert Wollny wrote:
> >Dear Prof. Kolmogorov, dear Prof. Boykov,
> >
> >I'm writing to you on behalf of the Debian Med team. Debian Med is
> >a collaborative effort to include all Free Software with relevance
> >to medicine into the official Debian distribution. Here you can
> >see the section of our work you might be interested in:
> >
> > http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/imaging
> >
> >As you can see we also explicitly mention the publications of the
> >authors who have written the software in question.
> >
> >Currently, I'm working on packaging a software for Multivariate
> >Bayesian Image Segmentation that makes use of your maxflow
> >library.
> >
> >Initially, the author of this segmentation software tried to make
> >use of version 2.21 that is redistributable under the terms of the
> >GNU GPL. However, already for normal sized brain data sets the
> >software crashed, a problem that does not occur with maxflow
> >version 3.0. Consequently, the author continued developing with
> >the latter implementation, and to include the segmentation
> >software into Debian, maxflow-3.0 would also needed to be
> >included.
> >
> >Now, to include software into the official Debian distribution it
> >must follow the Debian Free Software Guidelines [1], which, in its
> >essence, means the software must be freely redistributable and
> >usable in source and binary form. Therefore, in order to be able
> >to include maxflow 3.0 in the official Debian distribution, I
> >would kindly like to ask you to consider relicensing it to one of
> >the Debian approved licenses, for example by licensing it the
> >same way version 2.21 was licensed.
> >
> >Many thanks,
> >Gert Wollny
> >
> >
> >[1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
>
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