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

Tue Jul 19 03:11:50 CEST 2011

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 22:01, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+
+> 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 ?
+>
+
+I was under the impression that http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6711293 is
+related to it, but I am not sure.
+
+-- 
+Eugeni Dodonov
+http://eugeni.dodonov.net/
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