On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:30:37 -0800 Dima Kogan <[email protected]> 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 ? Cheers, -- Jérôme Kieffer tel +33 476 882 445 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
