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Description

SIFT patent expired recently and these algorithms can be provided as part of open source binaries that are distributed from our
website.

Fixes: #3007

Changes to Users

None to existing users. New users will be able to use sift/gloh functions from the installations done using our website binaries.

Checklist

  • Rebased on latest master
  • Code compiles
  • [ ] Tests pass
  • [ ] Functions added to unified API
  • [ ] Functions documented

@9prady9 9prady9 added this to the 3.8.1 milestone Dec 29, 2020
@9prady9 9prady9 requested a review from umar456 December 29, 2020 17:12
@9prady9 9prady9 force-pushed the free_sift branch 3 times, most recently from 6d853b5 to 6d73f23 Compare December 29, 2020 17:33
umar456
umar456 previously approved these changes Jan 11, 2021
@9prady9 9prady9 force-pushed the free_sift branch 3 times, most recently from a0b2d39 to 6bb51f2 Compare January 12, 2021 13:06
SIFT patent expired recently and these algorithms can be
provided as part of open source binaries that are distributed from our
website.
@9prady9 9prady9 force-pushed the free_sift branch 4 times, most recently from cd1d4dd to 7985cb0 Compare January 19, 2021 04:06
@9prady9 9prady9 merged commit 43b34a9 into arrayfire:master Jan 21, 2021
@9prady9 9prady9 deleted the free_sift branch January 21, 2021 19:26
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Moving SIFT to main repo

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