ImageJ Code Contributions: Question from Eclipse

[Barb Cochrane]

Hello,

 

One of the projects working under the Eclipse Foundation has expressed an
interest in redistributing ImageJ from within Eclipse.  Eclipse is an open
source community whose projects are focused on building an open development
platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for
building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.

 

I have a quick question that we ask as part of our due diligence on third
party open source packages, and I'm hoping that one of the ImageJ project
team can help shed some light for me.

 

Does ImageJ ask contributors to acknowledge (via email or otherwise) that
the contributor has the rights to the code they are contributing and that
they have agreed to release it in the public domain as described in ImageJ's
disclaimer statement on http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/disclaimer.html?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards,

 

Barb Cochrane

Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Phone [phone] ext 232 (GMT -5)

Fax [phone]

Email [hidden email]

www.eclipse.org <http://www.eclipse.org/>

 

[Patrick Pirrotte]

Dear Barb,

There is no team as such. There's Wayne Rasband, author and maintainer of
ImageJ, and there's a bunch of people trying to get ImageJ to do stuff. Bug
reports and code submissions are sent by email to Wayne, who decides to
include them into ImageJ or not. Most people that are inscribed on this
mailing list for some time have contributed some things over the years, as
code, bug reports, documentation and such.

As far as I understand it, code snippets provided by the community that flow
into ImageJ are public domain. I think it's clear for every contributor that
ImageJ is public domain, and that no further claims on input can be made.
Plugins are another matter though, as those can be under whichever licences
their respective authors fancy.

Regards,

Patrick


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Subject: ImageJ Code Contributions: Question from Eclipse

Hello,

 

One of the projects working under the Eclipse Foundation has expressed an
interest in redistributing ImageJ from within Eclipse.  Eclipse is an open
source community whose projects are focused on building an open development
platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for
building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.

 

I have a quick question that we ask as part of our due diligence on third
party open source packages, and I'm hoping that one of the ImageJ project
team can help shed some light for me.

 

Does ImageJ ask contributors to acknowledge (via email or otherwise) that
the contributor has the rights to the code they are contributing and that
they have agreed to release it in the public domain as described in ImageJ's
disclaimer statement on http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/disclaimer.html?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards,

 

Barb Cochrane

Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Phone [phone] ext 232 (GMT -5)

Fax [phone]

Email [hidden email]

www.eclipse.org <http://www.eclipse.org/>