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libfprint
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libfprint is part of the fprint project:
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https://fprint.freedesktop.org/
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libfprint was originally developed as part of an academic project at the
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University of Manchester with the aim of hiding differences between different
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consumer fingerprint scanners and providing a single uniform API to application
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developers. The ultimate goal of the fprint project is to make fingerprint
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scanners widely and easily usable under common Linux environments.
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2007-12-07 14:59:38 +00:00
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The academic university project runs off a codebase maintained separately
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from this one, although I try to keep them as similar as possible (I'm not
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hiding anything in the academic branch, it's just the open source release
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contains some commits excluded from the academic project).
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER DOES NOT ENDORSE THIS THIS SOFTWARE RELEASE AND
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IS IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CODE CONTAINED WITHIN, OR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED
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BY USING OR DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE. Development does not happen on
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university computers and the project is not hosted at the university either.
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2007-11-08 13:41:52 +00:00
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For more information on libfprint, supported devices, API documentation, etc.,
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see the homepage:
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https://fprint.freedesktop.org/
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2007-11-12 23:32:17 +00:00
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libfprint is licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1. See the COPYING file
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for the license text.
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2007-11-15 17:23:36 +00:00
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Section 6 of the license states that for compiled works that use this
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library, such works must include libfprint copyright notices alongside the
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copyright notices for the other parts of the work. We have attempted to
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make this process slightly easier for you by grouping these all in one place:
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the AUTHORS file.
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2007-10-27 23:21:49 +00:00
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libfprint includes code from NIST's NBIS software distribution:
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http://fingerprint.nist.gov/NBIS/index.html
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We include bozorth3 from the US export controlled distribution. We have
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determined that it is fine to ship bozorth3 in an open source project,
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see https://fprint.freedesktop.org/us-export-control.html
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2018-11-30 16:57:40 +00:00
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## Historical links
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Older versions of libfprint are available at:
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/fprint/files/
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Historical mailing-list archives:
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http://www.reactivated.net/fprint_list_archives/
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Historical website:
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http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/
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