ITK License Information

• The Copyright of ITK is held by the Insight Software Consortium
  • http://insightsoftwareconsortium.org
• ITK is distributed under a Apache 2.0 License.
  • http://www.itk.org/ITK/project/license.html

Third Party Libraries

VXL

• Copyright ?
• License ?

JPEG

• Thomas G Lane ( BSD-Like)
• DCMTK : OFFIS... and many others
• BSD-Like license

OpenJPEG

• Universite Catholique de Louvain
• BSD license

NrrdIO

• Gordon Kindlmann and University of Utah
• BSD-Like license.
• Clarifies that the original package "Teem" (not in ITK) is still under GPL license

NIFTI

• No copyright ?
• There is no mention of licensing nor copyright at the NIFTI Web site:
  • http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1
  • However at http://niftilib.sourceforge.net it appears as "public domain" license, but in its subdirectory matlibs it has a GPL license.
    • The matlibs subdirectory is not included in ITK.
• The subdirectory jlibs is public domain
• The subdirecotry clibs is public domain

MetaIO

• Copyright ?
• License ?

EXPAT

• Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper.
• BSD-Like license

PNG

• Copyright: Glen Randers-Pehrson, Andreas Dilger, Guy Erc Schalnat
• License ?

TIFF

• Copyright Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics
• License ?

GDCM

• Copyright: CREATIS
• BSD-Like License

ZLIB

• Copyright: Mark Adler
• License ?

kwsys

• Copyright: Kitware
• BSD-Like License

Various Files

DICOMParser

• Copyright by Matt Turek.
• Distributed under a BSD-Like license.

 [This work was funded by NLM so its copyright should probably be transfered to the ISC.]

AnalyzeDB.h

• The Mayo Clinic aggreed to distribute this file with ITK.
• Point of contact: Vincent Magnotta.
• The file was moved to Utilities/itkExtHdrs

PixelData

• GE Copyright,
• Vincent is contacting the providers of this code too.

Netlib

• Netlib is a conglomerate of packages. Each one having different copyrights and licenses.
• Here is a listing of what is included inside Utilities/vxl/v3p/netlib

blas

• From www.netlib.org/blas

   FAQ: The reference BLAS is a freely-available software package. 
   It is available from netlib via anonymous ftp and the World Wide Web. 
   Thus, it can be included in commercial software packages (and has been). 
   We only ask that proper credit be given to the authors.

datapac

• Written by James Filliben, National Bureau of Standars.
• Our understanding is that the US Government cannot hold copyrights, therefore we assume that this code is in the public domain.

itk_hash_map

• Copyrights by SGI and HP
• License is consistent with BSD-like.

itkMersenneTwisterRandomVariateGenerator

• Copyright: Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura,
• Copyright: Richard J. Wagner
• BSD-Like license.

Code/Numerics/FEM/dsrc2c.c

• Copyright: 1977 IMSL Inc,
• No license available.
• Stephen Aylward removed the specific functions in this file that were copyrighted by IMSL and replaced them with other functions available in netlib. The file is now cleared from copyright concerns.

Code/Numerics/cvsrmvend

• Copyright: Greg A. Woods
• "Freely distributable"