<<For the materials producted by the those illegaly packaged software, they are usually legit. >>
Which brings me back to my original point. If you knowingly use illegally package software to create a work, do you have a moral right to be outraged if your work is stolen? On Dec 18, 3:01 am, "tennevin.yves" <tennevin.y...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > This has nothing to do with hugin. > > Free / nonfree software can be pirated everywhere in the world, what > ever the local laws allowing this or not. > Using an illegal copy of a software, being photoshop, hugin, windows or > God know what is usually the user's responsability. > > For the materials producted by the those illegaly packaged software, > they are usually legit. > That does not mean the one using them risk nothing. > > It just means the copyright status of such medias is unrelated to how > they were created. > > -- > Yves Tennevin / esby <dot> free.fr > > http://esby.free.fr/contact.html > > DaveN wrote: > > Copyright is largely ignored in China and other places so can people > > in those places copy your images or repackage Hugin? > > > Bruno: Where is the other place to discuss Hugin where I can find > > answers? > > > On Dec 17, 7:31 am, "tennevin.yves" <tennevin.y...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > >> Patents hold no ground in Europe. > >> The Berne convention can still be applied, what ever the licence you > >> choose for your image. > >> And to DaveN comment, I ain't infringing any patent while located in > >> Europe, so the moralistic opinion is bogus, but copyright laws can still > >> be applied in Europe. > > >> -- > >> Yves Tennevin / esby <dot> free.fr > > >>http://esby.free.fr/contact.html > > >> DaveN wrote: > > >>> Sure the IP rights are separate but that was not the question. If you > >>> create an image infringing on a patent, can you in all honesty be > >>> outraged if someone infringes on your rights to your image? > > >>> On Dec 17, 12:39 am, ArAgost <arag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>> IANAL and I'm no expert on patents, but note that whatever are the > >>>> issues with the software, the intellectual property of the image is > >>>> completely separate. > > >>>> On 17 Dic, 06:30, DaveN <tahoedave...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >>>>> The best control point generators out there are SIFT based (or the > >>>>> software company doesn't tell you what the function is but it sure > >>>>> seems to operate like SIFT). SIFT is patented however that patent is > >>>>> largely ignored on the grounds that such patents don't apply in all > >>>>> parts of the world. The current downloads for Hugin barely mention > >>>>> the patent issue. > > >>>>> Copyrights are also largely ignored in some parts of the world. Using > >>>>> the same logic as above, is it ok for someone in one of the parts of > >>>>> the world that largely ignore copyrights to repackage a version of > >>>>> Hugin and sell it as their own worldwide? Would it be ok if they did > >>>>> so and only casually mentioned to the buyer to check their local laws > >>>>> for any issues that may concern them locally? > > >>>>> If someone makes a commercial image from Hugin using a SIFT control > >>>>> point generator and then posts the stitched image on the Internet and > >>>>> someone copies it, is that ok? > > >>>>> I'll duck now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
