[MINC-development] minc-tools has non-distributable files in the git tree

[Andrew Janke]

Hrm,

ecattominc is definitely relevant, the others I don't know. Note that
ecattominc was definitely in the old minc-tools .deb. FWIW, the
ecat file format is now well and truly in the public domain, the
header is very much self describing, perhaps not in the past.


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On 28 September 2015 at 13:12, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I mistakenly believed that minc-tools was just a subset of the previously
> distributed "minc" tarball.  After uploading to Debian, however, a Debian ftp-
> team member indicated that the files in conversion/gcomserver are not
> redistributable.
>
> In fact, there is a comment in the file stating:
>
>  * Revision 1.16  2001-04-09 23:02:48  neelin
>  * Modified copyright notice, removing permission statement since copying,
>  * etc. is probably not permitted by our non-disclosure agreement with
>  * Philips.
>
> See https://github.com/BIC-MNI/minc-tools/commit/ee456a65b92ca6af39a84e7148602d1ea8e2b8a8
>
> The directory conversion/gcomserver was not present in the original minc
> tarball, so something was added.   Several things, in fact.
>
> Now, gcomserver is not used in the build anywhere.  So I simply stripped out
> that directory and the package still builds fine.  I asked Peter Neelin about
> this and he said it is code for a pre-DICOM Philips format/wire protocol.
> This seems unlikely to be of interest today so I believe the git repo could
> simply be scrubbed with no loss.
>
> Peter also indicated that things like ecattominc and scxtominc were for
> similarly proprietary formats.  Like gcomserver, scxtominc is not  used today
> so presumably could be removed without loss.  The tools ecattominc (and
> minctoecat) on the other hand, are built.  Are they still relevant?  I can see
> Siemens has published a DICOM Conformance Statement about ECAT PET Systems.
> Would dcm2mnc work for ECAT today?
>
> -Steve
>
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