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Updated OE 32. Change OpenCV License to Apache 2 (markdown)

Vadim Pisarevsky 2020-06-07 20:25:29 +03:00
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From very beginning, when OpenCV was released by Intel as open-source computer vision library in 2000, it has been distributed under BSD license (https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/4.0.0/LICENSE), which was one of the few available options.
GNU Public license (GPL), while being a great license for certain applications and components of open-source software, was not appropriate and still is not appropriate for OpenCV, because we wanted to not only boost research in computer vision, but also accelerate development of commercial applications, i.e. push the whole industry.
GNU Public license (GPL), while being a great license for certain applications and components of open-source software, was not appropriate and still is not appropriate for OpenCV, because we wanted not only to boost research in computer vision, but also accelerate development of commercial applications, i.e. push the whole industry.
BSD worked well for us for many years, but since the year 2000 computer vision world has changed a lot: