Thomas> I'm sure the trick is doable, but it clearly needs both good Thomas> legal preparation and good management of the patent rights. Thomas> Which in turn need to be sustained by some revenue. So it Thomas> won't happen unless I can actually find some customers who want Thomas> to build and sell Panini-based products. If I were 20 years Thomas> younger I'd probably try to start a company to make TV and Thomas> movie rendering software (and probably lose my shirt) but as it Thomas> is, someone else is going to have to do that. If any of you Thomas> wants to volunteer, or knows how to sell new technology to TV Thomas> or movie producers (or JVC Corporation, for that matter) I Thomas> would be happy to hear about it.
I had informal (ie. non legal) conversation with E. Moglen and Bradley M. Kuhn (Technology Director of Software Freedom Law Center) with regard to this issue. The FSF would helps us with any questions regarding this issue. I described to them the main issue and it seems that the simplest solution for everybody (the patent holders and libpano/hugin) is that you, Tom, re-license the code from its current license (BSD-3 clauses) to a GPLv3+. Our code is GPLv2+ hence, it can link with GPLv3+ as in practice it will become GPLv3 at build time. Now, from a more pragmatic issue, the uncertainty of if a patent is going to exist or not is an important issue. Tom, your intention is to patent, and therefore we must take the necessary steps to address this potential problem. Tom, do you make a claim on the Equirectangular Pannini? --dmg -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . -- 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
