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 its official
Website:
http://www.orthanc-server.com/

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


Supported Platforms
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Currently, the officially validated platforms are:

* GNU/Linux (32bit and 64bit).
* Windows (32bit and 64bit).
* Apple OS X (32bit and 64bit).

Orthanc is known to work on other UNIX-like platforms (such as FreeBSD
and OpenBSD).


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

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


Licensing
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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:

@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"
}


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

* 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)
* OrthancExplorer/    - Code of the Web application (HTML5/Javascript)
* OrthancServer/      - Code of the Orthanc server (depends on DCMTK)
* Plugins/            - Code of the plugin framework
* Resources/          - Scripts, resources for building third-party code
* UnitTestsSources/   - 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.