I agree that Wayne's oversight is essential. I use ImageJ as a development
platform for aeroacoustics research applications. I could not accept the
Gnu license that I believe would come along as baggage with SourceForge.
impossible to sell products derived from the software. When I studied this
free or commercially.
Robert P. Dougherty, Ph.D.
President, OptiNav, Inc.
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> Everyone is always free to contribute source code to ImageJ, I do. In my
> opinion ImageJ is a tool for the biomedical imaging community. ImageJ is
> not about development, nor a tool for developers.
> I think the overseeing by Wayne Rasband, who has been doing this for a
> very long time, is essential.
> Moving it to sourceforge or similar would probably emphasize new tools but
> de-emphasize documentation, manuals, user community etc.
>
> My opinion only.
>
>
> Michael Abramoff
>
> Michael D. Abrà moff, MD, PhD
> Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology / Assistant Professor of
> Electrical and Computer Engineering
> Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
> University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, PFP 11290C
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Steve Milner
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:39 PM
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> Subject: ImageJ + SourceForge
>
> Good Day List,
>
> I was wondering if there has ever been any talk about moving the
> development of ImageJ to SourceForge.net? Two things that seem to be
> missing in the ImageJ project are CVS and the ability to attract other
> developers to lend a hand. SourceForge helps solve both of these problems.
> The website, mailing list, etc.. could remain at NIH.Gov, while
> development of the application would point to SF CVS. It would also remove
> the bandwidth stress from NIG.Gov and put it on the list of mirrors at SF.
>
> If nothing else, will there ever be source control inplace so that others
> can follow development and even submit back patches and improvements?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Milner