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

[Eugeni Dodonov]

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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