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'''Progress:''' After extensive discussion and review, NA-MIC developed a licensing policy for the components of the NA-MIC Software Kit. This policy assures developers who create derived works based on the NA-MIC Kit that they will have the flexibility to select the appropriate software license for that work. For example, this policy would permit academic users to distribute binary-only versions of software in advance of publication, or commercial users to incorporate parts of the NA-MIC Kit into their products. | '''Progress:''' After extensive discussion and review, NA-MIC developed a licensing policy for the components of the NA-MIC Software Kit. This policy assures developers who create derived works based on the NA-MIC Kit that they will have the flexibility to select the appropriate software license for that work. For example, this policy would permit academic users to distribute binary-only versions of software in advance of publication, or commercial users to incorporate parts of the NA-MIC Kit into their products. | ||
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| + | NA-MIC continues to be a resource to the community for software licensing information. The [[NAMIC_Wiki:Community_Licensing]] page provides a well organized summary of license issues which has been favorably commented on by the community. Other groups from multiple sites (NCBC groups included) have contacted NA-MIC for advice and also adopted the Slicer license as a template. These groups include: | ||
| + | * I2B2 | ||
| + | * JHU CISST | ||
| + | * XNAT | ||
| + | * BIRN | ||
'''Key Investigators:''' | '''Key Investigators:''' | ||
Revision as of 19:34, 26 April 2007
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Objective: To develop and establish policies for, and examples of, acceptable software licenses to insure that users of the NA-MIC kit are free to distribute their derived works under any license suitable to their needs and consistent with the goals of the National Centers of Biomedical Computing.
Progress: After extensive discussion and review, NA-MIC developed a licensing policy for the components of the NA-MIC Software Kit. This policy assures developers who create derived works based on the NA-MIC Kit that they will have the flexibility to select the appropriate software license for that work. For example, this policy would permit academic users to distribute binary-only versions of software in advance of publication, or commercial users to incorporate parts of the NA-MIC Kit into their products.
NA-MIC continues to be a resource to the community for software licensing information. The NAMIC_Wiki:Community_Licensing page provides a well organized summary of license issues which has been favorably commented on by the community. Other groups from multiple sites (NCBC groups included) have contacted NA-MIC for advice and also adopted the Slicer license as a template. These groups include:
- I2B2
- JHU CISST
- XNAT
- BIRN
Key Investigators:
- Steve Pieper (Isomics)
- Luis Ibanez, Will Schroeder (Kitware)
- Bill Lorensen, Jim Miller (GE)
- Ron Kikinis, Gordon Kindlmann (Brigham)
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