Norwegian Constitution Day, Free Software panoramas and software patents
Today is Norwegian Constitution Day.
In 2007, I spent my honeymoon in Norway. That was a fantastic journey!
As a reminiscence, I wanted to finally create some panoramas I photographed then. Thanks to Hugin this really is fun:
There is one downer, though:
You need to connect the pictures somehow. You can either do this manually (tedious) or you can use autopano-sift-c. This gives you an ugly warning, though:
=============================================================================== The use of this software is restricted by certain conditions. See the "LICENSE" file distributed with the program for details. The University of British Columbia has applied for a patent on the SIFT algorithm in the United States. Commercial applications of this software may require a license from the University of British Columbia. =============================================================================== Another story how software patents harm innovation!
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