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'Intel License Agreement' intentional?

asked Jan 20 '14

Having downloaded OpenCV for Linux, I have found mention of the 'Intel License Agreement' in many of the source files. Is this intended?

The OpenCV home page describes OpenCV as being released under a BSD license. Assuming this to be true, there is surely no need to make mention of a non-standard license such as the 'Intel License Agreement'.

If I run this from the main OpenCV directory, I find countless results:

find . -type f -exec grep -l "Intel License Agreement" {} \;

but some files, such as modules/superres/src/frame_source.cpp , make no mention of the Intel License Agreement.

If this is not intended, I shall file a bug-report.

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Actually I have been asked to place it into all my new files I have submitted ... But basically the header states that the functions are created by Intel funding but the complete library has a BSD license which means you can use it for commercial stuff.

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans (Jan 20 '14)edit

Thanks for your response.

This situation strikes me as needlessly confusing.

As far as I can tell, this 'Intel License Agreement' doesn't actually exist - OpenCV is simply released under the BSD license.

I'm not working for a company with nervous lawyers, but if I were, I'm sure this kind of thing (hinting at non-standard licenses) wouldn't help matters regarding adopting OpenCV.

MaxBarraclough gravatar imageMaxBarraclough (Jan 21 '14)edit

I do agree to that. Might not be a bad idea to file a bug report. Than it can be cleared out what there should be exactly.

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans (Jan 21 '14)edit

Thanks again. I've filed a bug-report, at http://code.opencv.org/issues/3498

MaxBarraclough gravatar imageMaxBarraclough (Jan 22 '14)edit

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answered Jan 22 '14

Andrey Pavlenko gravatar image

By 3.0 release we plan to keep a single license text as the 'opencv/LICENSE' (3-clause BSD) file and just reference it in every source file. The work is just started: https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/pull/2000

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Another question solved! Great :)

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans (Jan 23 '14)edit

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