-We are in contact with Freesurfer developers and are awaiting the resolution of
-legal issues that currently prevent legal redistribution of FreeSurfer.
+The majority of FreeSurfer 5.1.0 has been released under seems to be
+|DFSG|-compliant |FOSS| license terms on 24 May 2011. We have started working
+on packaging. Following has been done
+
+* modularization of the FreeSurfer distribution into code and data components
+
+* FreeSurfer 5.1.0 |FOSS| code made available from our `FreeSurfer GitHub
+ <https://github.com/neurodebian/freesurfer>`_ repository
+
+* :file:`debian/patches` contains a series of patches primarily to
+
+ - rely on system-provided libraries where applicable
+ - in general replace static inclusion with dynamic linking thus
+ greatly decreasing size of distributed binaries and making deployment more modular