Hello,
We were looking at packaging FSL for NeuroFedora. It's a very commonly used tool in NeuroImaging.
However, the License that the Oxford University has released it under has certain clauses that make me unsure if it is OK for inclusion in Fedora. Could someone please have a look?
https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki/Licence
On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 12:07:08PM +0100, Ankur Sinha wrote:
We were looking at packaging FSL for NeuroFedora. It's a very commonly used tool in NeuroImaging.
However, the License that the Oxford University has released it under has certain clauses that make me unsure if it is OK for inclusion in Fedora. Could someone please have a look?
There's a "no commercial use" clause which makes the license clearly not open source. There may be some other things but that's a hard stop.
Possibly it could be packaged into Flathub, or a non-free third-party repo.
On Sat, May 30, 2020 10:58:43 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 12:07:08PM +0100, Ankur Sinha wrote:
We were looking at packaging FSL for NeuroFedora. It's a very commonly used tool in NeuroImaging.
However, the License that the Oxford University has released it under has certain clauses that make me unsure if it is OK for inclusion in Fedora. Could someone please have a look?
There's a "no commercial use" clause which makes the license clearly not open source. There may be some other things but that's a hard stop.
Possibly it could be packaged into Flathub, or a non-free third-party repo.
I was afraid of that. Thanks for confirming. We'll see if we can speak to the university to change the license so it can be included in Fedora but I'm not optimistic :/
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Ankur Sinha -
Matthew Miller