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Re: Octave bindings for OpenCV
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Octave bindings for OpenCV |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:12:59 -0400 |
On 19-Mar-2008, Xavier Delacour wrote:
| On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:55 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > Is the OpenCV package (including what it links with) distributed under
| > license terms that are compatible with the GPL?
|
| OpenCV itself is distributed under the BSD license. It depends on a
| handful of libraries that are all under BSD/GPL/LGPL (ffmpeg, ...).
OK.
| that use MMX/SSE extensions. I believe that is only available under a
| commercial license, but not having this library does not
| remove/disable any OpenCV functionality, AFAIK.
Please don't confuse commercial with proprietary. For example, the
GPL allows commercial use but not proprietary derivatives.
Thanks,
jwe