blob: 7a355f2ab61d101cbb26300ed228e5a1f8713ab7 (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
|
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)
</TITLE>
<LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" >
<LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20About%20panotools%20patent%20problem%20%28and%20other%20problematic%0A%09rpms%29&In-Reply-To=%3C4D5E3823.5010103%40laposte.net%3E">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<LINK REL="Previous" HREF="002660.html">
<LINK REL="Next" HREF="002646.html">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<H1>[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)</H1>
<B>Philippe DIDIER</B>
<A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20About%20panotools%20patent%20problem%20%28and%20other%20problematic%0A%09rpms%29&In-Reply-To=%3C4D5E3823.5010103%40laposte.net%3E"
TITLE="[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)">philippedidier at laposte.net
</A><BR>
<I>Fri Feb 18 10:13:07 CET 2011</I>
<P><UL>
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002660.html">[Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="002646.html">[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)
</A></li>
<LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B>
<a href="date.html#2644">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#2644">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#2644">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#2644">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<HR>
<!--beginarticle-->
<PRE>Hi everybody !
Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some
algorythms library to build panoramic photographs)
Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...)
That's one of the first patent problems we may encounter :
Long time ago, iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit against
these free algorythms inventor and photographers using them (this
company is now dead because of bankruptcy but the patent problem is
still live... )
This patent problem was revoked in Europe by the European Patent Office
but is still valid in USA and perhaps other countries (Japan...)
There's a limitation to its use if you are in a country where the patent
problem exists !
For this reason : Mandriva proposed a rpm limited to a 160° fov (field
of view) support but we could find in PLF a rpm without limitation (up
to 360°...).
The spec was written to build differently for mandriva repo and plf
repo... and this is the one imported... but it allows to build only a
limited rpm (as it is not used with plf buildsystem)...
We might have two kinds of libpano :
- one without any legal issue in core-release,
- and another without limitation in tainted-release
Same problems will happen for other rpms whose 2 versions coexist (vlc,
mencoder, etc...
How can this be resolved ?
For dev : It was easy to use the same spec for buildind mdv and plf
different rpms
For users : it was easy to choose between .mdv and .plf because when we
are in a patent free country we may easily "upgrade" from mdv to plf :
same version number, but later alphabetical extension.
Is a special extension necessary for tainted rpms ?
</PRE>
<!--endarticle-->
<HR>
<P><UL>
<!--threads-->
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002660.html">[Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="002646.html">[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)
</A></li>
<LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B>
<a href="date.html#2644">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#2644">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#2644">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#2644">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<hr>
<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev
mailing list</a><br>
</body></html>
|
