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[Mageia-dev] autopano-sift-C ought to be in tainted, instead of core repository

+ Michael Scherer + misc at zarb.org +
+ Tue Jul 19 03:01:22 CEST 2011 +

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Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 02:04 +0200, Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
+> It's in the title !
+> The use of the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorythm 
+> allowing to find control points to build panorama with several pictures 
+> is restricted by a US patent... this algorythm is the basis of 
+> autopano-sift and autopano-sift-C !
+> 
+> hugin (a pano builder program) brings some patents problems with some of 
+> its  tools : this one is an optional tool, and we can use hugin without 
+> it... mostly since 2010.4 version of hugin which ships its own patent 
+> free control point generator which is quite as good as autopano ;)
+> 
+> 
+> the other rpm bringing patent problem is libpano13 (required by hugin) : 
+> two versions exist yet for mageia:
+> - one in core repository with a limited field of view (160°) and giving 
+> this limit to hugin (no patent problem though !)
+> - one in tainted repository  without limitation (but infringing US and 
+> Japan patents) allowing to build 360° panorama
+
+What are the patents number ?
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+Michael Scherer
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