[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 550255] Re: SIFT algorithm is patented in US

[Fabrice Coutadeur]

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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SIFT algorithm is patented in US
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Status in “autopano-sift” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix

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