Orthanc - A Lightweight, RESTful DICOM Server
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General Information
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General information about this software can be found on our Google
Code hosting page:
http://code.google.com/p/orthanc/

The instructions for building Orthanc can be found in the "INSTALL"
file.


Supported Platforms
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Currently, the supported platforms are:

* Linux 32bit.
* Linux 64bit.
* Windows 32bit.


Supported Toolchains
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Orthanc can currently be built using the following compiling
toolchains:

* Native Linux compilation, with gcc.
* Native Windows compilation, with Microsoft Visual Studio.
* Cross-compilation for Windows under Linux, with MinGW.


Licensing
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Orthanc is licensed under the GPLv3 license. Because Orthanc uses the
Software-as-a-Service paradigm, commercial products are allowed to
access the Orthanc REST services and to bundle Orthanc in an
commercial aggregate.

We also kindly require scientific works and clinical studies that make
use of Orthanc to cite Orthanc in their associated publications.


Licensing of special directories
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The following directories have separate licensing terms:

* The files of the "OrthancCppClient/" directory are licensed under
  the MIT license, which allows commercial products to statically link
  against the C++ client library.

* The file of the "Core/SQLite/" directory are licensed under the
  3-clause BSD license, as they are derived from the Chromium project.


Content
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This archive contains the following directories:

* Core/               - The core C++ classes (independent of DCMTK)
* OrthancCppClient/   - Code of the C++ client (under MIT license)
* OrthancExplorer/    - Code of the Web application (HTML5/Javascript)
* OrthancServer/      - Code of the Orthanc server (depends on DCMTK)
* Resources/          - Scripts, resources for building third-party code
* UnitTests/          - Unit tests

This archive contains the following files:

* AUTHORS             - The list of the authors
* CMakeLists.txt      - The main build script
* COPYING             - The GPLv3 license
* INSTALL             - How to build Orthanc
* README              - This file
* THANKS              - The list of the contributors
* NEWS                - The history of main changes between versions

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.