Re: sell ImageJ

Posted by dscho on May 17, 2007; 10:53am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/sell-ImageJ-tp3699427p3699435.html

Hi,

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Pierre Letessier wrote:

> In fact, I asked this question to find a reason to not use ImageJ for my
> project.

You should have said so ;-)

> I hoped ImageJ was protected by a licence which forbid to sell it.

No, ImageJ is free as in beer, as well as free as in freedom.

> I almost already complete my program in C++. But there are several
> persons (some of my teachers) who think I would have to use ImageJ.

There are other advantages to ImageJ than it just being a free piece of
software.

You would not believe how hard it can be to maintain a program in C++ for
multiple platforms. Some vendors have a *cough* peculiar *cough* way to
interpret standards. Funnily enough, exactly the same vendors tried to
kill off Java.

> Of course ImageJ is a very good software and I use it very often this
> year for my studies and to test some operators that I didn't know. But
> the graphical interface is not adapted to make a soft which will be used
> by surgeons.
>
> Is there a project to develop a new interface?

There have been a few ports to the Swing interface. Please search the list
archive if you want to know more.

> Some of my friends use ImageJ during their training period. They use the
> interface. Is it possible to use only the libraries of ImageJ?

Definitely. See for example the Servlet link on the ImageJ website.

> And what IDE do you use? They have problem to use Eclipse.

I know of success stories using Eclipse and Netbeans. Personally, I use vi
and the command line from a long standing habit.

Ciao,
Dscho