On 23 dec, 04:46, DaveN <[email protected]> wrote: > From the SURF page (interesting that the SURF page says it is > copyrighted but there is no mention of a patent)
I checked the files they provide, and those contain a LICENSE file, which I'll quote below. Indeed nothing is mentioned about patents anywhere. I've checked 2 papers on the subject [0-1]: nothing there either, nor is it mentioned on the Wikipedia page [2]. On an OpenCV discussion [3] however I found a link to a page that show that indeed there is a patent [4] (full text available from that site, upper right). [0] ftp://ftp.vision.ee.ethz.ch/publications/articles/eth_biwi_00517.pdf [1] http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~surf/eccv06.pdf [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SURF [3] http://n2.nabble.com/SURF-protected-by-patent-td3458734.html [4] http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=EP&NR=2027558A2&FT=D -- Bart ----- LICENSE CONDITIONS Copyright (2006): ETH Zurich, Switzerland Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium All rights reserved. For details, see the paper: Herbert Bay, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc Van Gool, "SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features" Proceedings of the ninth European Conference on Computer Vision, May 2006 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for educational, research, and non-commercial purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies modifications, and distributions. Any commercial use or any redistribution of this software requires a license from one of the above mentioned establishments. For further details, contact Andreas Ess ([email protected]). ----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
