Le vendredi 18 février 2011 06:13:07, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Hi everybody ! > Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some > algorythms library to build panoramic photographs) > Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...) > > That's one of the first patent problems we may encounter : > > Long time ago, iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit against > these free algorythms inventor and photographers using them (this > company is now dead because of bankruptcy but the patent problem is > still live... ) > > This patent problem was revoked in Europe by the European Patent Office > but is still valid in USA and perhaps other countries (Japan...) > > There's a limitation to its use if you are in a country where the patent > problem exists ! > For this reason : Mandriva proposed a rpm limited to a 160° fov (field > of view) support but we could find in PLF a rpm without limitation (up > to 360°...). > The spec was written to build differently for mandriva repo and plf > repo... and this is the one imported... but it allows to build only a > limited rpm (as it is not used with plf buildsystem)...
I imported like this explicity due to that in fact so we can take a decision to know if we should get it up to 360°. If i read correctly fedora still ship it without 360° support ( http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libpano13.git;a=commit;h=8d37dc9492f4ec51bbe1f88e7db850cf5db8fc7e ) -- Balcaen John