[Insight-users] SIFT/feature based registration in ITK?

[Bill Lorensen]

There is recent patent law that muddies the term non-commercial use.
For example, if you are at a University your use of a patent may well
be considered commercial use.

See http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/experimental-use-exception-evaporating
for example.


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Rupin <rupin.dalvi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you not allowed to use patented methods for non-commercial research !?!
>
> Rupin
>
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:45:22 -0800, Torsten Rohlfing
> <torsten at synapse.sri.com> wrote:
>
>> Another reason for lack of motivation to implement SIFT in ITK might
>> also be that SIFT is patented.
>>
>>> Someone mentioned off list that they are slowly working on writing
>>> SIFT for ITK - has there really been no past effort like this? Is the
>>> idea that ITK deals mainly with medical images and intensity based
>>> registration is typically fine for those?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>
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