2011/12/21 kfj <[email protected]> > On 21 Dez., 08:26, Harry van der Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > cpfind doesn't use surf or opensurf. > > Read the post by Pablo (with many replies) to see how it all started: < > http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/browse_thread/thread/d9c0558... > > Interesting reading. I suppose what made me unsure about how close > Pablo's algorithm and SURF are is that the code for the detector still > says in the header that it's copyrighted by Anael Orlinski and that > the file is part of panomatic. That's what I saw when I had a look at > the code (to see if it would be an interesting read as well), and when > I saw that it contains next to no comments I just gave up on it and > was left with the impression it was still panomatic code. Today I ran > a diff on the files and that showed they are very different. > > Maybe Pablo could put his own copyright in there and honour the > panomatic roots of the code - I think maybe the infrastructure was > taken from panomatic, but the detector is totally different now. I'm > not sure what the correct FOSS procedure is in this case? > > Kay > > Pablo mentions in that first post: " I'm still using a small part of the SURF algorithm to estimate the orientation of the interest point, so it is not 100% patent free yet, but I hope to replace that part in the future."
Currently it is a 100% patent free tool. As panomatic itself was GPL v2 (*) the code, apart from the surf algorithm, is free to be used and altered by everyone. It's enough from a legal point of view that Anael's name is mentioned to honor him for what he did. Off course we can be very thankful to him for building/delivering a thread enabled very fast tool. Harry *: <http://aorlinsk2.free.fr/panomatic/?p=home> -- 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
