Re: new plugin- 3D and 2D particle analyzer released

Posted by Robert Dougherty on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Thresholding-from-Java-tp3688545p3688550.html

In my opinion it makes GPL licensed code useless to professional software developers, and therefore should be avoided.  See http://www.opensource.org/ for less restrictive alternatives, such as the BSD and MIT licenses.

Bob

On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras wrote:

> Hi again Guanghua,
>
> GPL means basically that you allow other people to use and modify your
> program and source code as long as whatever they do with it remains as well
> under the GPL terms. It's on my opinion a very fair way of forcing
> everything to stay open source:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
> To apply it, you just have to add some lines at the beginning of your code:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
>
> Look for example how i did it in AnalyzeSkeleton:
>
> http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=fiji.git;a=blob;f=src-plugins/AnalyzeSkeleton_/skeleton_analysis/AnalyzeSkeleton_.java;h=ce4bcb334d02205b381710718d12e7bdb80a5d0b;hb=HEAD#l19
>
> Cheers!
>
> ignacio
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html>
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Guanghua Du <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi, ignacio,
>>
>> I have no idea how to apply the GPL license?
>>
>> best wishes,
>>
>> guanghua
>>
>>
>>
>> Ignacio Arganda-Carreras wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Guanghua,
>>>
>>> This looks great. Thanks a lot for sharing it!
>>>
>>> I noticed you released with no license, so it involves the most
>>> restrictive
>>> one. Wouldn't you like to make it more reusable by adding a GPL license?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> ignacio
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Guanghua Du <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear lister,
>>>> A new plugin FociPicker3D written for 3D and 2D particle/foci analysis
>>>> has been released at
>>>> http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/plugins/foci-picker3d/index.html.
>>>> it could be used to analyze the area/volume of particle, the center of
>>>> mass, the mean intensity, and the number of particles/foci in 2D and 3D
>>>> images.
>>>>
>>>> The FociPicker algorithm is based on local maxima, and the objects are
>>>> thresholded using local thresholds and background (general threshold
>>>> settings are also possible). For more details, please visit the plugin
>>>> webpage.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There are responses that the webpage link  cannot be loaded correctly
>>>> using
>>>> Firefox, but it works with IE (Internet Explorer) and Google Chrome.
>>>> Firefox
>>>> is WORKING when you set the code to Unicode (UTF-16).
>>>> Firefox-->View-->Encoding-->Unicode(UTF-16).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> best wishes!
>>>>
>>>> Guanghua Du
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> **************************************
>>>> Guanghua Du, PhD
>>>> James-Franck Str. 1
>>>> Physik Dept, E12, TUM
>>>> 85748, Garching b. Muenchen
>>>> Germany
>>>>
>>>> Tel:[phone]
>>>> E-mail: [hidden email]
>>>> **************************************
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> best wishes!
>>
>> **************************************
>> Guanghua Du, PhD
>> James-Franck Str. 1
>> Physik Dept, E12, TUM
>> 85748, Garching b. Muenchen
>> Germany
>>
>> Tel:[phone]
>> E-mail: [hidden email]
>> **************************************
>>
>
>
>
> --
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>
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