The main portions of the Insight Toolkit are copyrighted by the Insight Software Consortium and distributed freely under the terms listed in the file: ITKCopyright.txt The Toolkit contains code from third parties that have different copyrights. They are: 1) 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.] 2) AnalyzeDB.h: The Mayo Clinic aggreed to distribute this file with ITK. Point of contact: Vincent Magnotta. The file was moved to Utilities/itkExtHdrs 3) PixelData: GE Copyrights, Vincent is contacting the providers of this code too. 6) 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. eispack: lapack: laso: libf2c: linalg: linpack: mathews: minpack: napack: opt: temperton: tests: toms: 7) The triangle.c/h and showme.c files have been removed. Their copyright/license was incompatible with ITK and their functionality was not needed. These removed the "itknetlib" library. 8) itk_hash_map: It has copyrights by SGI and HP, but the license is consistent with BSD-like. So we simply need to acknowledge those in our general copyright. 9) itkMersenneTwisterRandomVariateGenerator: Copyright: Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura, Copyright: Richard J. Wagner under a BSD-Like license. 10) 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. 11) Code/Numerics/cvsrmvend Copyright: Greg A. Woods "Freely distributable" I guess that counts as BSD... Easy to remove if it becomes a problem, This is just a script for making easier the CVS syncs of VXL. 12) Testing/Code/IO/itkIOHeaderTest.cxx: Copyright: National Library of Medicine. Actually this is created by the Tcl script Insight/Utilities/Dart/BuildHeadrTests.tcl A fix has been commited for this file. 13) Testing/Code/Numerics/NeuralNetworks: Copyright: CADDLab at UNC Fixed now in CVS --> ISC Utilities: A) JPEG : Thomas G Lane ( BSD-Like) : DCMTK : OFFIS... and many others... but BSD-Like B) OpenJPEG : Universite Catholique de Louvain: BSD license C) NrrdIO : Gordon Kindlmann and University of Utah BSD-Like license. Clarifies that the original package "Teem" (not in ITK) is still under GPL license D) 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 in ITK it had a subdir: fsliolib : From the FSL package: University of Oxford: NO FOR COMMERCIAL USE This code has now been removed. E) EXPAT : Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper. with BSD-Like license F) PNG : Copyright: Glen Randers-Pehrson Andreas Dilger Guy Erc Schalnat G) TIFF : Copyright Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics H) GDCM : Copyright: CREATIS: BSD-Like License I) ZLIB : Copyright: Mark Adler J) kwsys : Copyright: Kitware : BSD-Like License