Re: RFS: VLFeat computer vision library
Hi Jerome,
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 11:48:51AM +0100, Jerome Kieffer wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:30:37 -0800
> Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net> wrote:
>
> > I packaged VLFeat (http://vlfeat.org), and am looking for sponsorship.
> > This is a computer vision library that implements a number of useful
> > algorithms.
>
> > This is a BSD-licensed library. It contained a SIFT implementation (a
> > patented feature detector), which I removed prior to repacking the
> > source tarball.
>
> Dear Debian Gurus,
>
> I have implemented a GPU version of SIFT which is up to 100x faster
> than VLFeat, released under MIT license and as VLFeat, I have a problem
> with this patent (not exactly me: I live in Europe).
>
> What is Debian's point on view on a patented algorithm in a free
> implementation ? Does it mean such package can enter Debian in 6 year
> of time when the US-patent is no more applicable ?
I failed to search some reference but if I remember correctly the
situation about distributing patented code from Debian mirrors has
relaxed since some time.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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