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

[Michael Scherer]

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 ?

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Michael Scherer