Opencv-nonfree in rpmfusion?

Alec Leamas leamas.alec at gmail.com
Wed May 8 11:04:31 CEST 2013


On 2013-05-08 09:54, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I recently realized that the opencv module in Fedora doesn't contain the
> "nonfree" parts, which are the SURF and SIFT feature detectors. I was
> wondering if it's OK to make them available via RPMFusion? Both SIFT and
> SURF are widely used feature detectors in vision research. Not having
> them around makes all these research folks move away from Fedora.
>
> I'd be happy to maintain the package, if required. I'd just like to have
> these available for use.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884885
> ^ Bug where removal of non free bits from fedora package is documented
In general, I see no problem. This should be similar to e. g., 
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2206.

That said, IMHO the only way to get the final answer would be to 
actually make a review request,
http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors#Create_a_package_review_request.

Just my 5 öre

--alec


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