patents in hugin [Re: [ptx] Hugin windows snapshot hugin_2004_07_03-13_53_win32.zip with autopano]

[Pablo d'Angelo]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Guillaume Rousse wrote:

> hugin is now in PLF, as it use some patented algorithm. However, they 
> are only cooker packages, not 10.0 ones.

Not really. It doesn't implement the SIFT algorithm itself, and also relies
on the transform functions from the panotools library (so no stuff that
could be claimed by IPIX), so hugin and nona do not use any patented
algorithms (as far as I know, that is).

ciao
  Pablo