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Bastien Nocera 770444af55 nbis: Add script to update NBIS and apply changes 
NBIS is pretty complicated to update, seeing as we've made quite a few
changes to get it to compile as a library. With those scripts, we can
easily trim headers to remove functions we don't use, rename global
variables, and do any sort of fixups that are necessary right now.

In the future, removing unused NBIS functions might be as easy as
updating that script, re-running it, and pushing the changes.

Note that remove-function.lua is a very crude parser that only supports
NBIS' style of declaration, with the return type on the same line as the
function name. I wouldn't recommend trying to use it in another project.

Callcatcher (https://github.com/caolanm/callcatcher) was also used to
remove additional unused functions.
2018-08-27 20:01:00 +02:00
doc build: Fix build with newer meson 2018-07-20 12:22:50 +02:00
examples examples: Fix integer overflow warnings 2018-05-25 13:40:33 +02:00
libfprint nbis: Add script to update NBIS and apply changes 2018-08-27 20:01:00 +02:00
.gitignore Doc and build updates 2007-11-15 23:00:04 +00:00
.gitlab-ci.yml build: Fix build with newer meson 2018-07-20 12:22:50 +02:00
AUTHORS AUTHORS: Update 2012-12-14 13:17:24 +01:00
COPYING upekts relicensing 2007-11-15 09:54:35 +00:00
HACKING.md HACKING: Update hacking file 2018-06-12 11:06:26 +02:00
INSTALL INSTALL: Update for Meson 2018-05-18 01:16:30 +02:00
meson.build 0.8.2 2018-07-17 13:48:13 +02:00
meson_options.txt build: Always enable debugging logging 2018-05-23 19:11:02 +02:00
NEWS 0.8.2 2018-07-17 13:48:13 +02:00
README README: Update links to new website 2018-06-03 00:31:05 +02:00
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

README 

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