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It is not very useful to just delete the data again after a failure, as
it might be useful for debugging. Just store it into an "errors"
subdirectory of the PWD in the hope that this is a sane location.

Note that it'll error out if the directory already exists, but that
should be acceptable in all cases. i.e. it won't exist in the CI and
developers can just wipe the directory.
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libfprint vfs301: Start capture only on state change to AWAIT_FINGER_ON 2020-11-04 14:13:00 +01:00
scripts Uncrustify everything except for nbis 2019-11-20 20:38:06 +01:00
tests tests: Store temporary directory on failure 2020-11-05 15:52:54 +01:00
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AUTHORS AUTHORS: Update 2012-12-14 13:17:24 +01:00
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COPYING upekts relicensing 2007-11-15 09:54:35 +00:00
HACKING.md HACKING: Clarify the intent of the license 2019-08-05 13:37:28 +02:00
INSTALL INSTALL: Update for Meson 2018-05-18 01:16:30 +02:00
MAINTAINERS Add MAINTAINERS file 2020-05-22 15:00:11 +02:00
meson.build Release 1.90.3 2020-09-14 14:23:45 +02:00
meson_options.txt lib: Major rewrite of the libfprint core and API 2019-11-20 11:03:09 +01:00
NEWS Release 1.90.3 2020-09-14 14:23:45 +02:00
README README: Add links to historical resources 2018-11-30 17:57:40 +01:00
THANKS Thanks to Greg and Martin from AuthenTec 2012-11-29 09:51:55 +01:00
TODO Compiler flags update 2007-12-27 01:06:55 +00:00

libfprint
=========

libfprint is part of the fprint project:
https://fprint.freedesktop.org/

libfprint was originally developed as part of an academic project at the
University of Manchester with the aim of hiding differences between different
consumer fingerprint scanners and providing a single uniform API to application
developers. The ultimate goal of the fprint project is to make fingerprint
scanners widely and easily usable under common Linux environments.

The academic university project runs off a codebase maintained separately
from this one, although I try to keep them as similar as possible (I'm not
hiding anything in the academic branch, it's just the open source release
contains some commits excluded from the academic project).

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER DOES NOT ENDORSE THIS THIS SOFTWARE RELEASE AND
IS IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CODE CONTAINED WITHIN, OR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED
BY USING OR DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE. Development does not happen on
university computers and the project is not hosted at the university either.

For more information on libfprint, supported devices, API documentation, etc.,
see the homepage:
https://fprint.freedesktop.org/

libfprint is licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1. See the COPYING file
for the license text.

Section 6 of the license states that for compiled works that use this
library, such works must include libfprint copyright notices alongside the
copyright notices for the other parts of the work. We have attempted to
make this process slightly easier for you by grouping these all in one place:
the AUTHORS file.

libfprint includes code from NIST's NBIS software distribution:
http://fingerprint.nist.gov/NBIS/index.html
We include bozorth3 from the US export controlled distribution. We have
determined that it is fine to ship bozorth3 in an open source project,
see https://fprint.freedesktop.org/us-export-control.html

## Historical links

Older versions of libfprint are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fprint/files/

Historical mailing-list archives:
http://www.reactivated.net/fprint_list_archives/

Historical website:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/