README.Copyright.txt

December 28, 2008

Historical note:

Starting with gdcm 2.0.11, GDCM, Grassroots DICOM is distributed
under the new simplified BSD license, approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

See Copyright.txt

GDCM includes source code from other projects which have different copyright.

This is an incomplete list of additional licenses included:

- BSD-2-Clause and BSD-3-Clause are used extensively (e.g. Utilities/gdcmcharls/License.txt)
- Apache-2.0 license is used extensively
- MIT license (e.g. `Source/MediaStorageAndFileFormat/gdcmIconImageGenerator.cxx` and `Utilities/gdcmexpat/COPYING`)
- OFFIS (e.g. `Utilities/gdcmjpeg/COPYRIGHT.dcmtk`; c.f https://spdx.org/licenses/OFFIS.html )
- Custom public domain license (e.g. `Utilities/pvrg/COPYING`)

The GDCM library does not include any source code that is:

- GNU General Public License or 
- GNU Lesser General Public License

However, `Examples/Csharp/MpegVideoInfo.cs` is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.