2011/11/2 Dylan Richard Muir <m...@hifo.uzh.ch>: > Hi Carnë, > > I'd be very happy for you to include the function into octave-forge. > > All works on my website are published under a CC-NC-SA license: > http://dylan-muir.com/resources/license/ > > If that license is incompatible with what you need, then I have good news: > the same function is available from Mathworks File Exchange, under a BSD > license: > http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32479-import-imagej-rois > > I can also license the function to you under the GPL, if you prefer. > > Best regards, and good luck with your octave development. > Dylan Muir
Hi! Thanks for your quick reply. I did not notice the general license for everything on the site but I think CC-NC-SA is not compatible as it is not completely free. BSD is indeed compatible but because you have it hosted in File Exchange we can't use it in octave. You see, the BSD license allows to add extra restrictions on the code and mathworks does it in the "terms of use" of their site. One of the terms of use is "All content contained in the MATLAB Central File Exchange may only be used with MathWorks products." (you can read the whole thing in http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/disclaimer.html ). If you send us the code personally with the BSD license attached then it shouldn't be a problem, but legally we can't download it ourselves from the file exchange site. You don't have to remove the file from file exchange, just send it to us. Personally I prefer GPL but if you want BSD it's ok too. Here's the header for the two of them * GPL (v3 or later) http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/image/inst/imdilate.m?revision=8894&view=markup * new/modified BSD http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/general/inst/majle.m?revision=8537&view=markup Note that the BSD license is actually 4 different licenses, the link I gave you is for the new/modified BSD license (the most used one I think). If you want to see the other ones, the wikipedia page explains them quite well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses Apologies for bothering you with this legal issues, but I hope you understand why. Carnë ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA® Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
