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Color Descriptor software License Agreement

Copyright (c) Koen van de Sande / University of Amsterdam

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any direct,
indirect, consequential, special, incidental, or other damages, including
but not limited to damages for lost profits, interruption of business,
lost or corrupted data or programs, system crashes, or diversion of system
or other resources, arising out of or relating to this license or the
performance, quality, results, use of, or inability to use this software.

The authors shall not be liable for any claim asserted against you by any
other party, including but not limited to claims for infringement of copyright
or other intellectual property rights. Any commercial use of this software
requires a license from the University of Amsterdam.

Note that the SIFT method is patented by the University of British Columbia.
Therefore, while this software contains its own implementation of SIFT,
for commercial use a license can be obtained to:

"Method and apparatus for identifying scale invariant
features in an image and use of same for locating an object in an
image," David G. Lowe, US Patent 6,711,293 (March 23,
2004). Provisional application filed March 8, 1999. Asignee: The
University of British Columbia.

For further details on obtaining a commercial SIFT license, contact David
Lowe (lowe at cs.ubc.ca) or the University-Industry Liaison Office of the
University of British Columbia.

This license must be retained with all copies of the software.