[Neurodebian-devel] Adding a resting-state fMRI toolbox to the repository

[Gert Wollny]

On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 10:05 +0200, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 23:07 +0200, Gert Wollny wrote:
> > 
> > > 2) Pick a license
> > 
> > > - GSL, GPL
> > 
> > > and maybe(see issue #1):
> > > - FSL, http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsldownloads/
> > 
> > FSL license states "You are not permitted under this Licence to use
> > this Software commercially." which makes it incompatible with the GPL.
> 
> ... which is only a problem if you *distribute* the binaries, really.
>
Yes, but since this is supposed to become a contribution Debian, this is
quite relevant.  

> If you make GSL optional and compile the Debian package with GSL
> disabled, then it works (at least in this respect, as I'm not sure about
> other aspects of the FSL license, which I haven't read). Just thought
> I'd point this out explicitly...

If you go this way and depends directly on FSL, then the package would
have to go into the contrib section, since it would depend on a non-free
package. 

Regarding the fslio library: the source code is actually still in the
nifti source package, it is just not compiled, because the copyright is
not cleared, see: 

 https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/09/msg00026.html

One thing one could do is to make the FSLIO a dynamically loadable
library that injects this functionality if installed (think plug-in) and
that is provided by and extra package that depends on FSL, or uses the
questionable licensed fslio code. This package could then go into
non-free or contrib and. 

Best regards, 
Gert 



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