Hi Yuv,

Just to help you stay away from the dark side, here's what I made of
the text fileinstaller_licence.txt:
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Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Pablo d'Angelo.
Additional Authors see AUTHORS.txt files in the documentation.
Built and packaged for binary redistribution 2009/07/26 by Allard.


UPGRADES
This version of Hugin is backwards compatible, and there should not be
good reasons to keep using the previous stable version. If you wish to
do so however, it is possible to install them side-by-side. If not,
please uninstall the previous version before running this installer.


SHELF-LIFE

Hugin is under constant development, and the code evolves rapidly.
Nevertheless, stable releases like this are not very frequent. If you
are looking for newer features or the latest cutting edge development
snapshots, and are willing to accept all the risks involved, look for
them at Yuval Levy's page: <http://panospace.wordpress.com/downloads/
>. New stable releases will be announced on the hugin home page:
<http://hugin.sf.net/>


DISCLAIMER

The programs in this installer are tested to some extent, but they may
not
work as expected. Use them at your own risk.
This installer is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


LICENSE
The control point generators shipped with this installer

* autopano-sift-C
* panomatic
* Autopano

are based on the SIFT algorithm. This algorithm is patented in the USA
by the University of British Columbia. Commercial applications of
these control point generators in the USA may require a licence from
the University of British Columbia.

For all other parts of this installer, you are free to use, copy,
distribute, modify them. Unless you distribute you should not be
worried by
the following licensing terms.

All files in this archive are subject to the included licenses.
Details in
enblend/LICENSE_GPL.txt
enblend/LICENSE_VIGRA.txt
hugin/LICENSE_GPL.txt
hugin/LICENSE_JHEAD.txt
hugin/LICENSE_VIGRA.txt
panotools/LICENSE_GPL.txt


DISTRIBUTION

Distribution in compliance with GPL permitted and encouraged.
If you distribute, you MUST include a copy of the applicable
licenses and give access to the source code of executable binaries.

The source code for the binaries can be acessed at

enblend <http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=123407>
hugin <http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=77506>
panotools <http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=96188>


DOCUMENTATION

Basic information:
- start hugin from the start / all programs menu. Use the help menu.
- start binaries from the command line with no arguments.

Further usage information may be found at
<http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin>
<http://wiki.panotools.org/Enblend>
<http://wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse>
<http://wiki.panotools.org/Panotools>
<http://wiki.panotools.org/Panorama_Tools_Plugins>

It is likely that some or all information at the above page does not
apply
to the software installed. If the installed software does not perform
as expected, it is because it is experimental and some functions may
be
incomplete, broken, obsolete, new or otherwise missing in action.

Before reporting problems with the documentation or asking for
support,
please download the lastest version of this installer from
<http://panospace.wordpress.com/downloads/>
and see if it solves the problems you'd like to report.

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The release notes I just copy-pasted from Bruno's post on this forum.
I'm not very well informed about the exact legal implications of the
patent situation, so it would be great if someone can confirm this
won't get the hugin project into trouble. Except for patent lawyers I
haven't met any Windows user (including myself) who actually reads
licence agreements, so I guess that part is the only thing that
matters.

Allard

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