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 <[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 ? > > 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 -- Julien Cristau <[email protected]> Logilab http://www.logilab.fr/ Informatique scientifique & gestion de connaissances -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
