[Neurodebian-devel] MedINRIA licensing question

[Pierre Fillard]

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 <debian at onerussian.com>wrote:

> Dear Pierre,
>
> I am one of the NeuroDebian developers (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,
> --
> Yaroslav O. Halchenko
> Postdoctoral Fellow,   Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
> Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
> Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834                       Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419
> WWW:   http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
>



-- 
Pierre Fillard, Ph.D.,
Research Scientist
INRIA Parietal - Neurospin
Bât 145, Point Courrier 156
91191 Gif/Yvette, France
tel: +33 1 69 08 79 92
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