What is the copyright information for OME material?

As OME is a consortium of separate groups, from different institutions, working together on a common product you will find different copyright messages across our code, documentation, products and publications. These messages reflect the origin of that particular part of our material.

Note: the origin is just that, it does not indicate that people from that institution are responsible for that code now. i.e. If a file is created by Glencoe, but worked on extensively by team members from Dundee, its copyright will not change.

Agreements exist between the different entities in the consortium to release the material together under a unified license.

Licenses for OME Software

All OME formats and software are freely available, and all OME source code is available under  GNU public "copyleft" licenses or through commercial license from  Glencoe Software.

For questions about the GNU license refer to the  Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses page.

OMERO.server and clients use the  GNU General Public License 2 or later. OMERO.web uses the  Affero GNU General Public License.