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BIG License

For a summary of SciJava licensing, see the Licensing page.

Components distributed via the BIG-EPFL update site were developed by the Biomedical Imaging Group (BIG) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

These components are licensed under proprietary terms, incompatible with the GPL and similar licenses.

However, the Fiji project has obtained permission to redistribute them:

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:58:20 +0200 From: Michael Unser michael.unser@epfl.ch

[…] we are happy that Fiji distributes our software: you have my formal authorization for this (in my quality of lab chief). “You’ll be free to use this software for research purposes, but you must not transmit and distribute it without our consent”: this means that from now on, you are authorized to distribute any ImageJ pluging listed at http://bigwww.epfl.ch/algorithms.html since you have our consent.

List of BIG components

The following components are expressly or implicitly licensed this way:

Project License text
Differentials http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/differentials/#LegalBlurb
Extended Depth of Field http://bigwww.epfl.ch/demo/edf/
imageware Implicit
MIJ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/sage/soft/mij/#term
MosaicJ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/mosaicj/#LegalBlurb
PointPicker Implicit
Shepp-Logan Phantom http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/shepplogan/#LegalBlurb
Snakuscule http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/snakuscule/#LegalBlurb
StackReg http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/stackreg/#LegalBlurb
TurboReg http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/turboreg/#LegalBlurb
UnwarpJ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/UnwarpJ/#LegalBlurb
wavelets Implicit