[Neurodebian-devel] MedINRIA licensing question
Yaroslav Halchenko
debian at onerussian.com
Thu Feb 24 17:03:58 UTC 2011
Dear Pierre,
Thank you for the detailed reply. And yes, please buzz us
whenever open-source version comes alive ;-)
With best regards,
Yaroslav
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Pierre Fillard wrote:
> Dear Yaroslav,
> Sorry for this late answer.
> Thank you very much for your interest in medinria.
> As you already know, the current version of medinria is closed-source.
> The main reason of this choice is that some algorithmic components are
> property of INRIA (my employer), who would prefer to keep them private.
> The current version of medinria was more a proof of concept showing
> that very technical elements could be used thanks to a user-friendly
> interface. The code is not extremely well designed and could be a pain
> to maintain. For instance, algorithms and user interface are quite
> interleaved, making it difficult to release some part of the code
> public for the reason mentioned above.
> We are on the process of a major refactoring of medinria for the next
> 2.0 version. The new version will be modular and, hopefully,
> open-source. Only "private" plugins won't be shipped open-source.
> If you are still interested, I will contact you when the new version is
> ready. We are planning to have a first release in October - there is
> still a long way to go but this is for the good of science and
> software!
> Best,
> Pierre.
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
> <[1]debian at onerussian.com> wrote:
> Dear Pierre,
> I am one of the NeuroDebian developers ([2]http://neuro.debian.net).
> Our
> goal is to integrate Neuroscience-related software within Debian
> (and
> thus its derivatives suchas Ubuntu) Linux distribution. We were
> referred to MedINRIA by one of the upstream authors.
> We are wondering if you have any plans for re-releasing MedINRIA
> under
> some less restrictive (e.g. allowing redistribution and
> modifications) open-source license terms, allowing MedINRIA to be
> integrated in Debian?
> P.S. "About" box of MedINRIA asks "Please read the LICENSE file for
> more information." but LICENSE file is not distributed within
> MedINRIA-1.9.0-linux_FC10-x86_64.tar.gz
> With best regards,
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