Re: FFT implementation in ImageJ

Posted by dscho on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/FFT-implementation-in-ImageJ-tp5008239p5008298.html

Hi Dimiter,

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Dimiter Prodanov (imec) wrote:

> I was not aware of this. Is there an accessible reference?

A Google search brought this up:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3256967/what-are-the-copyright-and-licensing-issues-of-porting-code
as well as other good resources. Please do not ask me more about this: I
am not a lawyer so what I say is not legal advice anyway.

> All in all, the question is very interesting.

Sorry, I disagree. This is not very interesting to me. I much prefer
programming over technical discussions of the law. But the point
stands: porting software is considered subject to copyright law.

And the Numerical Recipes are the worst offender of applying this law.
They should be ashamed, doubly so, it has nothing to do with science when
you try to prevent the dissemination and application of knowledge, and
every scientist should stay as far away as possible from this
incredibly science-unfriendly book.

Ciao,
Johannes

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