[vtkusers] SIFT legal issues

[Bill Lorensen]

David,

I think you can certainly publish. You have to be careful about how
you use it. Just because you are at a University does not give you
rights to use it as far as I know.

Perhaps Luis will comment. Although he is not a lawyer, he knows much
more about this than I.

Bill

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> According to wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transform
>>
>>  "The algorithm is patented in the US; the owner is the University of
>> British Columbia.".
>>
>>  If this is true then we cannot include it in VTK or ITK.
>>
>> And you should be careful how you use it in your own work. You may be
>> violating the patent.
>>
>> Bill
>
> I thought that was the case about I/VTK.
>
> However, what about the VJ?
>
> I suppose I need a crash course in patent law, but am I really not
> allowed to even use it in my own work? Surely people have published
> papers saying "we then use SIFT to blah blah", right?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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