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<H1>[Mageia-dev] autopano-sift-C ought to be in tainted, instead of core repository</H1>
<B>Eugeni Dodonov</B>
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<I>Tue Jul 19 03:11:50 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 22:01, Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote:
><i> Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 02:04 +0200, Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
</I>><i> > It's in the title !
</I>><i> > The use of the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorythm
</I>><i> > allowing to find control points to build panorama with several pictures
</I>><i> > is restricted by a US patent... this algorythm is the basis of
</I>><i> > autopano-sift and autopano-sift-C !
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > hugin (a pano builder program) brings some patents problems with some of
</I>><i> > its tools : this one is an optional tool, and we can use hugin without
</I>><i> > it... mostly since 2010.4 version of hugin which ships its own patent
</I>><i> > free control point generator which is quite as good as autopano ;)
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > the other rpm bringing patent problem is libpano13 (required by hugin) :
</I>><i> > two versions exist yet for mageia:
</I>><i> > - one in core repository with a limited field of view (160°) and giving
</I>><i> > this limit to hugin (no patent problem though !)
</I>><i> > - one in tainted repository without limitation (but infringing US and
</I>><i> > Japan patents) allowing to build 360° panorama
</I>><i>
</I>><i> What are the patents number ?
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I was under the impression that <A HREF="http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6711293">http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6711293</A> is
related to it, but I am not sure.
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Eugeni Dodonov
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