[Digikam-users] updating dcraw for Pentax K10D PEF format

[scott chevalley]

I'm not sure I understand what the issues is with the license...  I read 
the thread below, but it really didn't explain why debian has an issue 
with the license in dcraw>=8.61...

could you explain it for a license idiot like me?  :) 

thanks
scott

Gilles Caulier wrote:
> bad news with dcraw.c >= 8.61 license under Debian. Look here :
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dcraw/+bug/86480
>
> This is want mean than dcraw and others programs witch use this 
> implementation (like UFRAW for example) wil be not available in the 
> future into Debian & co (:=(((
>
> About digiKam 0.9.2, Following Achim Bohnet tips, i have temporally 
> frozen dcraw.c implementation into libkdcraw to 8.60. i waiting 
> changes from dcraw author...
>
> I hope than an issue will be found int the future...
>
> Gilles
>
> 2007/4/10, Guillaume Castagnino <casta at xwing.info 
> <mailto:casta at xwing.info>>:
>
>     Le Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:04:20 -0400, scott chevalley a écrit:
>
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I have a Pentax K10d and I shoot in Raw format primarily.  I've done
>     > some research and found that the version of dcraw that digikam
>     uses is
>     > 8.41 which does not yet support this format, but version 8.69,
>     which is
>     > the newest, does.  I looked through the online svn and found
>     > instructions for updating the dcraw.c file and followed them
>     using the
>     > source rpm for digikam 9.1 and modifying the dcraw.c file and
>     putting it
>     > where it goes.
>     >
>     > digikam rebuilds fine and works and I can see the .PEF files and
>     view
>     > them, but if I try to edit them in showfoto I get a dialog
>     saying the
>     > version of digikamdcraw is too old.  I have looked through all the
>     > source to see what showfoto is looking for to determine version of
>     > digikamdcraw, but I can't find anything in the new file that
>     would break
>     > the version check.
>     >
>     > does anyone have any ideas of how to get this to work?
>     >
>     > thanks
>     > Scott
>
>     Hi,
>
>     You can apply this patch against dcraw 8.69 that make it works with
>     digikam 0.9.1 by maintaining the interface just like 8.41 (and
>     backporting bilateral noise filter feature used by digikam dialog) :
>     http://gentoo.xwing.info/media-gfx/dcraw/files/dcraw-8.69-backward-
>     <http://gentoo.xwing.info/media-gfx/dcraw/files/dcraw-8.69-backward->
>     compat.patch
>
>     Then :
>     - either integrate the patched version of dcraw in digikam 0.9.1
>     as you
>     did ;
>     - or use this patch
>     http://gentoo.xwing.info/media-gfx/digikam/files/
>     <http://gentoo.xwing.info/media-gfx/digikam/files/>
>     digikam-0.9.1-external-dcraw.patch against digikam 0.9.1 to use
>     external
>     backported dcraw (I personally prefer this solution, even if it
>     force me
>     to maintain myself backward compatibility of dcraw to work with the
>     current digikam version)
>
>     Other solution of course is as Gilles said to use svn version that
>     integrate a more recent version of dcraw
>
>     Chears,
>     Guillaume
>
>     --
>     cdlt,
>     Guillaume Castagnino
>
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