Update license to 3-clause BSD

[JoostJM]

Addresses #268
Change the license to 3-clause BSD

Question: should there be a explicit statement "Not intended for clinical use" and if so, where should it go?
Possibilities:

• Extra clause in the license
• Statement at the top of the documentation
• Statement at the top of ReadMe.md
• Disclaimer in the log. (as a warning, and as such, will also be part of the output to the command window in default mode).

cc @Radiomics/developers

[fedorov]

Question: should there be a explicit statement "Not intended for clinical use" and if so, where should it go?

• Extra clause in the license

@JoostJM no, I think it is not a good idea to add any extra clauses to the license. This will make the resulting license different from the 3-clause BSD, and will lead to a non-OSI-compliant license, obviating the purpose of license change.

See pointers to the relevant discussions that I included in #268 (comment). This specific issue you raise was discussed here. Quoting the license text, "[...] FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED". "clinical use" is just one of the possible uses, all of which are already disclaimed.

[pieper]

I agree with @fedorov we shouldn't change the wording of the license. The "not intended for clinical use" should be in places like the log file, the readme, and a header or comment of the output files.

[JoostJM]

@pieper, @fedorov, I added a disclaimer to the github readme and to the top of the documentation.

[fedorov]

@JoostJM @hugoaerts @pieper thinking about this for dcmqi, I decided to list BWH as the copyright holder, see https://github.com/QIICR/dcmqi/blob/master/LICENSE.txt. The reason is that, in case of dcmqi, BWH is the recepient of the award from NIH. It might make sense to list DFCI here, since in the case of pyradiomics, DFCI is the recipient of the main award funding pyradiomics development.

[hugoaerts]

I would keep it at HMS, as HMS shows it is more than only BWH or DFCI. Also, BWH is funding part of my lab, and some of these efforts helped the development of pyradiomics. Sent from iPhone

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