[Freesurfer] Notice about macOS Catalina Notarization and FreeSurfer

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Hello FreeSurfer team,

With Apple’s recent release of macOS Catalina, I wanted to test its compatibility with FreeSurfer. Indeed the executables in the freesurfer/bin folder are subject to the “notarization” problem in the OS, such that every dependent executable that is used in a recon-all stream requires the user to allow it manually through security (a process which becomes cumbersome and interrupts recon-all runs with the many libraries it requires). I know you are all working very hard on the software’s development and just wanted to update with this information in case other users are updating to Catalina and going to run a FreeSurfer stream soon.

Best,

Aditya Kulkarni