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autopano-sift package

  1. Bug #550255
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 550255

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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!