Re: RFS: VLFeat computer vision library
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 13:32:15 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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.
>
You're probably looking for one of these:
http://www.debian.org/legal/patent
http://www.debian.org/reports/patent-faq
Cheers,
Julien
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Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>
Logilab http://www.logilab.fr/
Informatique scientifique & gestion de connaissances
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