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| author | Alain Mazy <am@orthanc.team> |
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| date | Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:23:08 +0100 |
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| 3 Software X from vendor Y is not compatible with Orthanc | |
| 4 ======================================================= | |
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| 6 First of all, make sure to read at least the following sections from | |
| 7 the :ref:`faq`: | |
| 8 | |
| 9 * :ref:`troubleshooting` | |
| 10 * :ref:`dicom` | |
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| 12 Orthanc is `free and open-source software (FOSS) | |
| 13 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software>`_. FOSS | |
| 14 protects the digital freedoms of its users, and is freely available to | |
| 15 each and every user, for any use. As a backbone application for | |
| 16 medical imaging, the Orthanc project continuously tries and ensures | |
| 17 best possible compatibility with other FOSS software. To put it in | |
| 18 other words, we **provide free support for interfacing Orthanc with | |
| 19 other free and open-source software**. Feel free to discuss | |
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20 interoperability problems of Orthanc with other FOSS tools on our `Orthanc |
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22 <https://discourse.orthanc-server.org>`__, or to |
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| 26 Independently of FOSS, there exist many proprietary systems for | |
| 27 medical imaging. Note that proprietary systems might either be paying | |
| 28 or come gratis (also known as freeware). In either case, they restrict | |
| 29 the freedoms of their users and, as a consequence, the Orthanc project | |
| 30 does not have access to a valid license for each software X from any | |
| 31 vendor Y. This implies that we **do not provide free support for | |
| 32 proprietary software (including freeware)**. | |
| 33 | |
| 34 If you encounter difficulties while interfacing Orthanc with some | |
| 35 proprietary software, **contact the commercial support of your | |
| 36 supplier**. As Orthanc is free and open-source, the support team of | |
| 37 your supplier can download Orthanc, and can help you solve your | |
| 38 problem. If some fix is needed in our source code, the Orthanc project | |
| 39 will happily integrate it within in the Orthanc mainline, provided the | |
| 40 **patch is explicitly put in the public domain by your vendor**. We | |
| 41 remind the vendors that, if they distribute a patched version of | |
| 42 Orthanc to some of their clients as the result of a commercial | |
| 43 support, the `GPL license | |
| 44 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License>`_ of | |
| 45 Orthanc requires them to **publicly release the source code of this | |
| 46 derived version of Orthanc**. | |
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| 456 | 48 Finally, if you need to complement the services of your vendor, |
| 805 | 49 consider buying :ref:`professional services from our community |
| 50 <support-freelancers>`. |