Thanks for your response <span class="gmail_quote">Mikolaj,<br><br>There is an interressing thread in libtiff mailing list about HSPhoto support :<br><br><a href="http://www.asmail.be/msg0054634987.html">http://www.asmail.be/msg0054634987.html
</a><br><br>Gilles<br></span><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/4/4, Mikolaj Machowski <<a href="mailto:mikmach@wp.pl">mikmach@wp.pl</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dnia środa 04 kwiecień 2007, Gilles Caulier napisał:<br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> If you following the photograhy world news, you have certainly seen than<br>> M$ have created since one year a new file format named HDPhoto...
<br>><br>> The picture file is based on TIFF. It support Exif/IPTC/XMP/ICC<br>> profiles. This file format is supported by default into M$ Vista and the<br>> future Adobe Photoshop CS3.<br>><br>> M$ provide a porting kit witch can be compiled under Linux !
<br>><br>> And yes it compile fine here. I have just fixed one line in a C file<br>> (:=))) and moved the Makefile at the right place. The kit provide the<br>> shared lib raries to encode/decode/read metadata from HDPhoto files, and
<br>> 2 command line tools like backend of libraries...<br>><br>> Of course, this porting kit license is special (:=))). Achim i promise<br>> you some long white night to read the M$ EULA. Without to have read the
<br>> paper, i'm sure it not compatible as well with open-source world (it's<br>> not GPL/BSD like)... But i recommend to read the wikipedia page before<br>> to take too fast conclusion :<br>><br>>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Photo">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Photo</a><br>><br>> More informations about HDPhoto can be found here :<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/wmphoto/">
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/wmphoto/</a><br>><br>> My personnal tarball fixed to compile under linux is here :<br>><br>> <a href="http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/hdphoto-porting-kit-linux.t">
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/hdphoto-porting-kit-linux.t</a><br>>ar.gz<br>><br>> Uncompress the tarball, go to HDPhoto folder, and start "make all"...<br>> That all...<br>><br>> What do you think about ?
<br>><br>> Gilles<br>><br>> Note: Please this is not a troll. Stay constructive (:=)))...<br><br>Following discussion from Wiki and linked pages looks like MS verbally<br>promised putting HD Photo specs under Open Promise but in official page
<br>of aforementioned Open Promise HD Photo isn't mentioned. This is one<br>problem.<br><br>Second problem I see: two points in EULA:<br><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=285eeffd-d86c-48c3-ab93-3abd5ee7f1ce&displaylang=en">
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=285eeffd-d86c-48c3-ab93-3abd5ee7f1ce&displaylang=en</a><br><br> 2a<br><br> You may permit distributors of your Licensed Products to copy and<br> distribute the Distributable Code as part of your Licensed Products,
<br> provided that your distributors are legally prohibited from<br> modifying, and do not modify, the Distributable Code and/or the<br> Licensed Product in a manner that causes the Licensed Product (or<br> any third party product in which the Licensed Product is
<br> incorporated) to become non-compliant or incompatible with the HD<br> Photo 1.0 file format (a.k.a. the Windows Media Photo 1.0 file<br> format) as defined in the specification(s) provided in the software.<br>
<br>There is no way you can prohibit such changes in code.<br><br> 2c<br><br> modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable Code so<br> that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License. An<br>
Excluded License is one that requires, as a condition of use,<br> modification or distribution, that<br><br>While you can retain separate license for several files what about<br>binaries? And more important - inclusion of such files can delegate
<br>Digikam to second class citizen status in distros like Debian. IMHO it<br>is not worth it.<br><br>Partial solution could be provide some hooks in Digikam for displaying<br>of HDP files when some executable is available, plus links for
<br>downloading sources/even binaries but it should not be included in core<br>Digikam.<br><br>m.<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Digikam-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Digikam-devel@kde.org">
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