On the software patent issue: Ruben, Charles: Thank you very much for the quick answers.
OK, I think I will leave those sources out of the Debian package and look for more "open" alternatives... About autopano-sift, now I see it's actually in debian-multimedia, not Debian. I was wrong because I recalled it being in ubuntu repositories as well... but I guess there may be different policies there. JL On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 03:24:22PM +0100, Jose Luis Blanco a écrit : > > > > This software for the detection of invariant keypoints is being made > > available for individual research use only. Any commercial use or > any > > redistribution of this software requires a license from the > University > > of British Columbia. > > Dear Jose, > > this license actually clearly forbid redistribution of the program if one > does > not obtain a commercial licence. Debian can not redistribute it, even in > the > non-free section of its archive. > > If you really feel like packaging it, you can contact the authors and/or > the > copyright holder to obtain a relicencing or an exemption for Debian that > would > make it suitable for a redistribution in "non-free". > > But even in that case, I would advise avoiding using this software without > a > proper IP agreement, even for research: one may become unable to > commercially > exploit any discovery made with the patented method. And there is at least > on > precedent where doing non-profit research was considered commercial > exploitation as it can help to attract sutdents who pay to enter the > university. > > Have a nice day, > > -- > Charles Plessy > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ___________________________________________________________ Jose-Luis Blanco-Claraco Phone: +34 952 132848 Dpto. Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica E.T.S.I. Telecomunicacion Fax: +34 952 133361 Universidad de Malaga Campus Universitario de Teatinos 29071 Malaga, Spain http://www.isa.uma.es/jlblanco ___________________________________________________________
