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Re: A bunch of questions: buildd, chm, build dependencies, software patent issue



Hi Jose Luis!

El dom, 26-10-2008 a las 15:24 +0100, Jose Luis Blanco escribió:
> This software for the detection of invariant keypoints is being made
> available for individual research use only.  Any commercial use or any
> redistribution of this software requires a license from the University
> of British Columbia.

The commercial use restriction violates DFSG#6, and makes this package
unsuitable for main. 

I'm not sure about the redistribution restriction, but this can make the
package unsuitable even for non-free. 

> I think there should be no problem in including this code keeping
> these statements, but I prefer to ask for more experienced opinions
> first :-)

Well, I'm not very experienced, but I think there should be a problem...
Wait for more comments, or try debian-legal@d.o :)

> BTW, there is currently in Debian another package (autopano-sift)
> which already contains the same SIFT algorithm (but from different
> source code), so I expect there is no legal problem here! The
> copyright of that package does indeed mention the patent issue as
> well.

I can't found this package in debian pool, just in debian-multimedia...

Regards,

Ruben

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