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Orthanc - A Lightweight, RESTful DICOM Server
General Information
General information about this software can be found on its official Website, and in the Orthanc Book: http://www.orthanc-server.com/ https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/
The instructions for building Orthanc can be found in the "./INSTALL" file.
Supported Platforms
Currently, the officially validated platforms are:
- GNU/Linux (32bit and 64bit).
- Windows (32bit and 64bit).
- Apple OS X (32bit and 64bit).
Orthanc is known to work on other UNIX-like platforms (such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD).
Supported Toolchains
Orthanc can currently be built using the following compiling toolchains:
- Native GNU/Linux compilation, with gcc.
- Native Windows compilation, with Microsoft Visual Studio.
- Cross-compilation for Windows under GNU/Linux, with MinGW.
Contributing
Instructions for contributing to the Orthanc project are included in the Orthanc Book: https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/developers/repositories.html
Licensing
Orthanc is licensed under the GPLv3 license, with the OpenSSL exception: http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
Full information about the licensing of the Orthanc ecosystem is available in the Orthanc Book: https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/faq/licensing.html
We also kindly ask scientific works and clinical studies that make use of Orthanc to cite Orthanc in their associated publications. Similarly, we ask open-source and closed-source products that make use of Orthanc to warn us about this use. You can cite our work using the following BibTeX entry:
@Article{Jodogne2018, author="Jodogne, S{'e}bastien", title="The {O}rthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging", journal="Journal of Digital Imaging", year="2018", month="Jun", day="01", volume="31", number="3", pages="341--352", issn="1618-727X", doi="10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y", url="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y" }
Licensing of special directories
The following directories have separate licensing terms:
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The files of the "./OrthancFramework/Sources/" directory are licensed under the LGPLv3 (Lesser GPL) since Orthanc 1.7.2. The related COPYING file can be found in "./OrthancFramework".
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The files of the "./OrthancFramework/Sources/SQLite/" directory are licensed under the 3-clause BSD license, as they are derived from the Chromium project.
Content
This archive contains the following important directories:
- ./OrthancFramework/Sources/ - The sources of the Orthanc framework
- ./OrthancFramework/UnitTestsSources/ - Unit tests of the Orthanc framework
- ./OrthancServer/OrthancExplorer/ - Code of the Orthanc Explorer (HTML5/Javascript)
- ./OrthancServer/Plugins/ - Code of the plugin framework
- ./OrthancServer/Resources/Samples/ - Samples
- ./OrthancServer/Sources/ - Code of the Orthanc server (depends on DCMTK)
- ./OrthancServer/UnitTestsSources/ - Unit tests of the Orthanc server
This archive contains the following important files:
- ./AUTHORS - The list of the authors
- ./COPYING - The main GPLv3 license
- ./INSTALL - How to build Orthanc
- ./NEWS - The history of main changes between versions
- ./OrthancServer/CMakeLists.txt - The main build script of the Orthanc server
- ./README - This file
We have decided not to maintain a separate "ChangeLog" file. Each commit to the official Orthanc Mercurial repository should be associated with a description of the changes.