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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other	problematic rpms)</H1>
    <B>Balcaen John</B> 
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    <I>Fri Feb 18 13:26:16 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le vendredi 18 f&#233;vrier 2011 06:13:07, Philippe DIDIER a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> Hi everybody !
</I>&gt;<i> Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some
</I>&gt;<i> algorythms library to build panoramic photographs)
</I>&gt;<i> Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> That's one of the first patent problems we may encounter :
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Long time ago, iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit against
</I>&gt;<i> these free algorythms inventor and photographers using them (this
</I>&gt;<i> company is now dead because of bankruptcy but the patent problem is
</I>&gt;<i> still live... )
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> This patent problem was revoked in Europe by the European Patent Office
</I>&gt;<i> but is still valid in USA and perhaps other countries (Japan...)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> There's a limitation to its use if you are in a country where the patent
</I>&gt;<i> problem exists !
</I>&gt;<i> For this reason : Mandriva proposed a rpm limited to a 160&#176; fov (field
</I>&gt;<i> of view) support but we could find in PLF a rpm without limitation (up
</I>&gt;<i> to 360&#176;...).
</I>&gt;<i> The spec was written to build differently for mandriva repo and plf
</I>&gt;<i> repo... and this is the one imported... but it allows to build only a
</I>&gt;<i> limited rpm (as it is not used with plf buildsystem)...
</I>
I imported like this explicity due to that in fact so we can take a decision 
to know if we should get it up to 360&#176;.
If i read correctly fedora still ship it without 360&#176; support ( 
<A HREF="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libpano13.git;a=commit;h=8d37dc9492f4ec51bbe1f88e7db850cf5db8fc7e">http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libpano13.git;a=commit;h=8d37dc9492f4ec51bbe1f88e7db850cf5db8fc7e</A> 
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Balcaen John
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