1libfprint 2========= 3 4libfprint is part of the fprint project: 5http://www.reactivated.net/fprint 6 7libfprint was originally developed as part of an academic project at the 8University of Manchester with the aim of hiding differences between different 9consumer fingerprint scanners and providing a single uniform API to application 10developers. The ultimate goal of the fprint project is to make fingerprint 11scanners widely and easily usable under common Linux environments. 12 13The academic university project runs off a codebase maintained separately 14from this one, although I try to keep them as similar as possible (I'm not 15hiding anything in the academic branch, it's just the open source release 16contains some commits excluded from the academic project). 17 18THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER DOES NOT ENDORSE THIS THIS SOFTWARE RELEASE AND 19IS IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CODE CONTAINED WITHIN, OR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED 20BY USING OR DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE. Development does not happen on 21university computers and the project is not hosted at the university either. 22 23For more information on libfprint, supported devices, API documentation, etc., 24see the homepage: 25http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/Libfprint 26 27libfprint is licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1. See the COPYING file 28for the license text. 29 30Section 6 of the license states that for compiled works that use this 31library, such works must include libfprint copyright notices alongside the 32copyright notices for the other parts of the work. We have attempted to 33make this process slightly easier for you by grouping these all in one place: 34the AUTHORS file. 35 36libfprint includes code from NIST's NBIS software distribution: 37http://fingerprint.nist.gov/NBIS/index.html 38We include bozorth3 from the US export controlled distribution. We have 39determined that it is fine to ship bozorth3 in an open source project, 40see http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/US_export_control 41 42