Google Cloud Platform credentials for DICOMweb and Orthanc
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General Information
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This repository contains the source code of a plugin for Orthanc, the
lightweight Vendor Neutral Archive for medical imaging. This plugin
manages Google Cloud Platform credentials to dynamically add servers
to the DICOMweb plugin for Orthanc.


Dependencies
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The version of the DICOMweb plugin must be above 1.0, and the version
of Orthanc must be above 1.5.4 (1.5.7 is recommended).


Installation and usage
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Build and usage instructions are available in the Orthanc Book:
http://book.orthanc-server.com/plugins/google-cloud-platform.html


Licensing: GPLv3
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The Google Cloud Platform credentials plugin for Orthanc is licensed
under the GPLv3 license, with the OpenSSL exception:
http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

Please note that this plugin requires the DICOMweb plugin to be
installed, whom license is more restrictive (AGPL).

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"
}