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+Orthanc - A Lightweight, RESTful DICOM Server
+=============================================
+
+
+General Information
+-------------------
+
+General information about this software can be found on its official
+Website:
+http://www.orthanc-server.com/
+
+Orthanc Client is a SDK to access the content of a remote instance of
+Orthanc. It is currently only available for C++, more languages will
+be supported in the future.
+
+This software was originally part of the Orthanc core repository, but
+was separated starting with Orthanc 0.9.0.
+
+
+Licensing
+---------
+
+Orthanc is licensed under the GPLv3 license, with the OpenSSL
+exception:
+http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.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:
+
+@inproceedings{Jodogne:ISBI2013,
+  author = {Jodogne, S. and Bernard, C. and Devillers, M. and Lenaerts, E. and Coucke, P.},
+  title = {Orthanc -- {A} Lightweight, {REST}ful {DICOM} Server for Healthcare and Medical Research},
+  booktitle={Biomedical Imaging ({ISBI}), {IEEE} 10th International Symposium on}, 
+  year={2013}, 
+  pages={190-193}, 
+  ISSN={1945-7928},
+  month=apr,
+  url={http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6556444},
+  address={San Francisco, {CA}, {USA}}
+}