Dear Yaroslav,<br><br>Sorry for this late answer.<br><br>Thank you very much for your interest in medinria.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>
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!<br><br>
Best,<br>Pierre.<br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:debian@onerussian.com" target="_blank">debian@onerussian.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Pierre,<br>
<br>
I am one of the NeuroDebian developers (<a href="http://neuro.debian.net" target="_blank">http://neuro.debian.net</a>). Our<br>
goal is to integrate Neuroscience-related software within Debian (and<br>
thus its derivatives suchas Ubuntu) Linux distribution. We were<br>
referred to MedINRIA by one of the upstream authors.<br>
<br>
We are wondering if you have any plans for re-releasing MedINRIA under<br>
some less restrictive (e.g. allowing redistribution and<br>
modifications) open-source license terms, allowing MedINRIA to be<br>
integrated in Debian?<br>
<br>
P.S. "About" box of MedINRIA asks "Please read the LICENSE file for<br>
more information." but LICENSE file is not distributed within<br>
MedINRIA-1.9.0-linux_FC10-x86_64.tar.gz<br>
<br>
With best regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Yaroslav O. Halchenko<br>
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences<br>
Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755<br>
Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419<br>
WWW: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik</a><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Pierre Fillard, Ph.D.,<br>Research Scientist<br>INRIA Parietal - Neurospin<br>Bât 145, Point Courrier 156<br>91191 Gif/Yvette, France<br>tel: +33 1 69 08 79 92<br>