On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 03:38:23PM +0100, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 1/11/18, Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 04:10:39PM -0900, Lou Logan wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, at 3:30 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > >> > > >> > Would there be interrest in a project to write a QR code / barcode > >> > search & decode filter ? > >> > >> I've personally never scanned a QR code, but maybe I'm an outlier. Seems > >> more like an OpenCV project to me. > > > > The idea would not be so much to use it to scan a single QR code. I was > > thinking more of running it over a video or a collection of videos and scan > > the whole video for QR codes, barcodes from products and so on. > > The idea is for example that if a random product appears in a video, we may > > have a clear enough view of its barcode or other easy machine readable > > identifer > > and can automatically turn it into metadata. This could be quite fun > > to index and search a large video collection that way. > > And it also would raise awareness of what easy parsable information people > > have > > in their videos > > > > OpenCV is BSD, and for basically volunteer work i want to make sure my work > > and future iterations stay available to the public. BSD does not ensure > > this. > > So i probably will not significantly contribute to BSD licensed code unless > > its paid work. >
> So are GPL and LGPL, so yout want to finally leave? Why this hostility ? Debating licenses is really off topic, I had only mentioned BSD as it was implied by the question about writing this filter in opencv. But if you want my oppinion, i like the (L)GPL*, i also like most other free software licenses including BSD but with a limited budget of time and there being more licenses and projects under the sky than i ever could contribute to. One picks what one likes most :) I can spend X time working on BSD or X time working on (L)GPL licensed code. If all else is equal i pick (L)GPL here. If not all else is equal then i might pick BSD, it sure could be ... [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. -- Socrates
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