[Neurodebian-devel] MedINRIA licensing question

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

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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