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autopano-sift package

SIFT algorithm is patented in US

Bug #550255 reported by Alain Berney
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autopano-sift (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: autopano-sift

Please remove ‘autopano-sift’ from the ‘universe’ repository (and move it to Medibuntu if possible). The scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm used by ‘autopano-sift’ is patented in United States (see [1] and [2]) by the University of British Columbia and therefore cannot be freely used there.

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1. http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift/#download
2. http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=6711293&KC=&FT=E

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Jo Shields (directhex) wrote :

I've forwarded your concerns to the Ubuntu Technical Board. Patent matters are their jurisdiction.

Changed in autopano-sift (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jo Shields (directhex) wrote :

This matter is now on the agenda for the Technical Board meeting on April 20th, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoardAgenda

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Jo Shields (directhex) wrote :

The Technical Board discussed the issue with autopano-sift today, and determined that no preemptive action would be taken:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-April/030660.html

Full logs of the discussion should appear on this link after about 16:00 BST - scroll to around 15:05 for the relevant parts of the meeting:

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/04/20/%23ubuntu-meeting.html

The short version of the judgement appears to be "there's lots of stuff which is 'restricted use' not 'restricted distribution', such as libMAD".

If you have any further concerns, please raise them with the Technical Board.

Changed in autopano-sift (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp) wrote : Re: [Bug 550255] Re: SIFT algorithm is patented in US

directhex escribió:
> The Technical Board discussed the issue with autopano-sift today, and
> determined that no preemptive action would be taken:
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-April/030660.html
>
> Full logs of the discussion should appear on this link after about 16:00
> BST - scroll to around 15:05 for the relevant parts of the meeting:
>
> http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/04/20/%23ubuntu-meeting.html
>
> The short version of the judgement appears to be "there's lots of stuff
> which is 'restricted use' not 'restricted distribution', such as
> libMAD".
>
> If you have any further concerns, please raise them with the Technical
> Board.
>
> ** Changed in: autopano-sift (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
>
 Thanks for taking care of that, directhex!

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