What is this project ?

This project is NOT the official upstream DCMTK git repository.

DCMTK is maintained by OFFIS and can be found at:

http://git.dcmtk.org/

For more information see:

http://dcmtk.org/dcmtk.php.en

Why creating this fork ?

It is used as staging area to test and maintain patches waiting to be integrated upstream.

If you have questions, see https://discourse.slicer.org/