Re: hugin and software patents
On Thu 10-Sep-2009 at 12:50 -0400, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
Hugin is the featured article of the week at LWN, and Fedora is
specifically mentioned, in that our package is crippled (thanks a
bunch, software patent laws!).
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/351053/4c479d238c69ae76/
Would there be interest in packaging a full version for RPMfusion, and
if so, would it be in -free or -nonfree? If the Fedora packager is not
an RPMfusion contributor yet, I believe the process is almost
automatic?
I'd be willing to review the package if it's submitted.
Hi I'm the fedora hugin packager and also the rpmfusion
autopano-sift-C packager.
The hugin package hasn't been crippled, just the default preference
for 'control point generator' is set to give a warning about
patents - i.e. it assumes that autopano-sift-C isn't installed.
You can change this preference after installation and point it to
the rpmfusion autopano-sift-C package.
BTW the autopano-sift-C package in rpmfusion is out of date and
needs upgrading. I can't get rpmfusion CVS access working, if
somebody wants to push through an autopano-sift-C update you can
help right there.
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Bruno