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Neuroglycerin / neukrill-net-work

NDSB competition repository for scripting, note taking and writing submissions.
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Licencing of 3rd Party Tools #34

Open dnstanciu opened 9 years ago

dnstanciu commented 9 years ago

The competition rules say:

OPEN-SOURCE CODE A Submission will be ineligible to win a prize if it was developed using code containing or depending on software licensed under an open source license:

  • other than an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see http://opensource.org/); or
  • an open source license that prohibits commercial use.

SURF/SIFT are patented and cannot be used for commercial purposes without a licence: source.

From the SURF page:

SURF is noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

From the SIFT page:

This demo software is provided for research purposes only. A license must be obtained from the University of British Columbia for any commercial applications. The sofware is protected under a US patent as listed below.

So I guess SIFT is OK to be used as in theory we can get a licence from UBC?

scottclowe commented 9 years ago

See if there is any chat about this on the competition forum. I bet it's already been clarified there.

----- Reply message ----- From: "Dragos Stanciu" notifications@github.com To: "Neuroglycerin/neukrill-net-work" neukrill-net-work@noreply.github.com Subject: [neukrill-net-work] Licencing of 3rd Party Tools (#34) Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2015 21:29

The competition rules say:

"OPEN-SOURCE CODE A Submission will be ineligible to win a prize if it was developed using code containing or depending on software licensed under an open source license:

SURF/SIFT are patented and cannot be used for commercial purposes without a licence. (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Licensing-patent-SIFT-SURF-37629.S.46462001)

From the SURF page: "SURF is noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes."

From the SIFT page: "This demo software is provided for research purposes only. A license must be obtained from the University of British Columbia for any commercial applications. The sofware is protected under a US patent as listed below."

So I guess SIFT is OK to be used as in theory we can get a licence from UBC?

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