Posted by
Joris FA Meys on
Mar 08, 2009; 1:47pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/who-decides-what-is-next-tp3693416p3693417.html
I'm not involved directly, but I'll give it a shot :
Wayne Rasband is the developer of ImageJ, and he did so at the NIH. As far
as I know, it's maintained and updated by a team of programmers at the NIH.
They will definitely be able to tell you more about it.
But as ImageJ is in the public domain (under the GNU license I believe),
anybody can alter the code as they please, provided you give the right to do
that to anybody who you give access to your own altered code, and mention
the authors of the original program. So you cannot use ImageJ in programs
you develop yourself and sell to customers afterwards.
With ImageJ, there is actually not really a need to alter the code. You can
add any functionality you want by writing plugins. Anybody with Java
programming skills is able to do that.
For all legal questions, I think you better contact the NIH yourself (You
can use
[hidden email] , the e-mail mentioned on the ImageJ webpage).
Kind regards
Joris
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Gabriela Bauermann <
[hidden email]>wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm analyzing software for a new project on my company and the idea of
> using
> ImageJ came up.
> Although, it's not clear form me how the developers community is organized.
> So, could some of you tell me
> how it works?
> Who decides what is going to be implemented next?
> Who has permission to add (or change) code?
> Is there a leader? Some formal hierarchy?
>
> The disclaimer mentions "an employee" of Federal Government. And it's all I
> know...
>
> Sorry if it's a unusual question, but I really need this information and I
> could nor find it anywhere.
>
> --
> Gabriela Bauermann
> Santa Maria /RS /Brasil
>