[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

Mon Dec 13 13:50:59 CET 2010

If you don't understand what are patent problems :
+http://eupat.ffii.org/patents/effects/ipix/index.en.html
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+Helmut Dersch , a mathematics and physics professor in a German
+University created algorythms to stitch photographs into a panorama
+view, and proposed it as a free software (panotools)  !
+
+He did it before than a USA company register patents for such kind of
+program !
+
+He had to remove his free software from his public university site to
+get protected from legal action !
+Some panorama fanatics fortunately provided copyes of those tools on
+their own site and we could use them for years... it was the begining of
+Hugin (a graphical interface to use these algorythms) and PTviewer
+
+The libpano13 library which is proposed by Mandriva is limited in its
+use not to infringe the USA law (we couldn't build a 360° panorama with
+this library!).
+PLF repo contains an unlimited version of this library . (same name but
+not same "make" configuration : have a look on the spec file !) that
+infringes the USA law !
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+The creator of a software can be prosecuted on the basis of patents even
+if they were registered later !!!!
+
+Being careful doesn't mean accepting this, but being aware of this !
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