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−Orthanc - A Lightweight, RESTful DICOM Server
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−=============================================
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−General Information
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−-------------------
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−General information about this software can be found on its official
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−Website, and in the Orthanc Book:
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−http://www.orthanc-server.com/
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−https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/
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−The instructions for building Orthanc can be found in the "./INSTALL"
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−file.
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−Supported Platforms
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−-------------------
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−Currently, the officially validated platforms are:
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−* GNU/Linux (32bit and 64bit).
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−* Windows (32bit and 64bit).
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−* Apple OS X (32bit and 64bit).
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−Orthanc is known to work on other UNIX-like platforms (such as FreeBSD
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−and OpenBSD).
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−Supported Toolchains
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−--------------------
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−Orthanc can currently be built using the following compiling
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−toolchains:
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−* Native GNU/Linux compilation, with gcc.
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−* Native Windows compilation, with Microsoft Visual Studio.
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−* Cross-compilation for Windows under GNU/Linux, with MinGW.
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−Contributing
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−------------
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−Instructions for contributing to the Orthanc project are included in
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−the Orthanc Book:
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−https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/developers/repositories.html
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−Licensing
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−---------
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−Orthanc is licensed under the GPLv3 license, with the OpenSSL
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−exception:
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−http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
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−
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−Full information about the licensing of the Orthanc ecosystem is
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−available in the Orthanc Book:
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−https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/faq/licensing.html
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−
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−We also kindly ask scientific works and clinical studies that make
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−use of Orthanc to cite Orthanc in their associated publications.
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−Similarly, we ask open-source and closed-source products that make
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−use of Orthanc to warn us about this use. You can cite our work
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−using the following BibTeX entry:
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−
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−@Article{Jodogne2018,
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−  author="Jodogne, S{\'e}bastien",
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−  title="The {O}rthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging",
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−  journal="Journal of Digital Imaging",
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−  year="2018",
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−  month="Jun",
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−  day="01",
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−  volume="31",
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−  number="3",
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−  pages="341--352",
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−  issn="1618-727X",
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−  doi="10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y",
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−  url="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y"
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−}
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−Licensing of special directories
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−--------------------------------
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−The following directories have separate licensing terms:
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−* The files of the "./OrthancFramework/Sources/" directory are
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−  licensed under the LGPLv3 (Lesser GPL) since Orthanc 1.7.2. The
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−  related COPYING file can be found in "./OrthancFramework".
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−
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−* The files of the "./OrthancFramework/Sources/SQLite/" directory are
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−  licensed under the 3-clause BSD license, as they are derived from
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−  the Chromium project.
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−Content
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−-------
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−This archive contains the following important directories:
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−
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−* ./OrthancFramework/Sources/          - The sources of the Orthanc framework
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−* ./OrthancFramework/UnitTestsSources/ - Unit tests of the Orthanc framework
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−* ./OrthancServer/OrthancExplorer/     - Code of the Orthanc Explorer (HTML5/Javascript)
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−* ./OrthancServer/Plugins/             - Code of the plugin framework
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−* ./OrthancServer/Resources/Samples/   - Samples
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−* ./OrthancServer/Sources/             - Code of the Orthanc server (depends on DCMTK)
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−* ./OrthancServer/UnitTestsSources/    - Unit tests of the Orthanc server
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−This archive contains the following important files:
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−* ./AUTHORS                       - The list of the authors
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−* ./COPYING                       - The main GPLv3 license
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−* ./INSTALL                       - How to build Orthanc
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−* ./NEWS                          - The history of main changes between versions
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−* ./OrthancServer/CMakeLists.txt  - The main build script of the Orthanc server
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−* ./README                        - This file
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−We have decided not to maintain a separate "ChangeLog" file. Each
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−commit to the official Orthanc Mercurial repository should be
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−associated with a description of the changes.