Cosima version 0.9 -- readme.txt // please read chapter 9! Date: 01.05.2010 Contents: 1. Short description 2. License 3. Installation 4. Input of a license key 5. Application 6. Order 7. Right of cancellation 8. Known errors and problems of the version 0.9 9. Delivered files 10. Special notes by acquisition of preliminary releases 1. Short description: ------------------------------------------------------------ Cosima is a software program, which automatically mounts two individual stereo half-images to a perfect stereo image. It recognizes and corrects automatically color errors, height errors, size errors, rotation errors and trapezoidal distortions. It also and tries to correctly set the stereo window. Cosima will be developed and is tested for the operation systems Microsoft® Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP Windows Vista and Windows 7 - for OS Windows 98SE no function warranties are given. Cosima consists of two separate components, a console- based kernel program and a graphical user interface (GUI). The use of the GUI is not absolutely necessary. 2. License: ------------------------------------------------------------ Cosima is world-wide copyright protected. Cosima is not freeware and presupposes for unrestricted use the acquisition of a license key. Further details of the license agreement is regulated by the license text (see for this the file "license.txt"). With the input of the license key the user expressly accepts this license agreement. It is referred here expressely to the chapter: "Special notes by acquisition of preliminary releases"! The installation files of Cosima contain the freeware Exiftool, which is licensed unter the GPL (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/). The GPL text can be found in the subdirectory .\doc. The source code of exiftool will be supplied on request. 3. Installation: ------------------------------------------------------------ The files belonging to Cosima are made available on the internet site www.herbig-3d.de/cosima/releases/ as an installation program setup_cosima_.exe or a ZIP archive cosima_.zip. An installation of the program is not mandatory necessary. 4. Input of a license key: ------------------------------------------------------------ With the start of the unlicensed version of the program it is inquired whether a license key is to be entered. a) In case the question is answered with "no", the program starts as a not-licensed test version. In this version a signature "mounted with cosima" will be stamped into the result image, further restrictions doesn't exist and all functions can be tested without reservation. b) In case the question is answered with "yes", the username is printed on the screen and the license key fitting this username is expected. If a suitable key is entered, Cosima starts from now as a licensed full version. The license information is put down in a file "cosima.lic" in the Windows directory. The file cosima.lic is an ASCII file and is readable with each simple editor (like e.g. notepad). The username is the "Logon User Name" used by the Windows Operating system. With the input of a valid license key the license text lizenz.txt is accepted. 5. Application: ------------------------------------------------------------ Cosima will be launched either with the help of the graphical user interface cosima_gui.exe or manually as a console programm cosima.exe. The different starting possibilities of cosima.exe are described on the site \doc\startofcosima.html. 6. Ordering: ------------------------------------------------------------ For the unrestricted use the acquisition of a license key is necessary. Orders are to be carried out simplest by email to cosima@herbig-3d.de and must contain the usernames, for which the license keys should match. After that, foreign customers get a paypal money request of an amount of 99 Euro for each license (2 license keys for 2 different usernames). After payment (entrance on the account) the license keys will be computed and dispatched. A license permits the use for two usernames, enclosure thus two license keys. 7. Right of cancellation: ------------------------------------------------------------ The customer has the unconditioned right of cancelling the order up to the time, when the license key has been sended. For declaration an order cancellation it is sufficient to send an email to cosima@herbig-3d.de. So far payed money will be payed back without any reduces. Only the bank fees (e.g. PayPal fees) have to be carried by the customer. Attention: Because a customer specifically build license key cannot given back from it's nature, an order cancelling is not possibly after the moment of sending the license keys. 8. Known errors and problems of the version 0.9: ------------------------------------------------------------ - The perfect function with "all images" cannot be assured in principle. If the image possesses too few image contents or the two half-images are too different, the correction algorithm fails. The author is however endeavored to constantly improve the program. For unexpected problems with certain images it is recommended to send them in. A support in all cases cannot be guaranteed however. 9. Delivered program files: ------------------------------------------------------------ - cancelled 10. Special notes by acquisition of preliminary releases: ------------------------------------------------------------ All program releases with version numbers smaller than 1.0 are called preliminary releases. For these program releases the author reserves itself fundamental program modifications. These program modifications may contain in particular: - changes of the licencing algorithm - changes at the core algorithm for the image correction and thus changes at the correction result - changes of the program sequence - changes of the program output, in form and content - changes at the conversion method of image file formats - changes at the method for interactive setting of the stereo window - changes of the parameter names and changes of the allocations of certain detail functions to certain parameters and their values. If changes at the licencing algorithm should be necessary, all registered users receive new valid license-keys free of charge. Although program modifications usually are to cause function extensions and function improvements, also a degradation cannot be excluded with a certain image. This is not recognized expressly as reason for a contract resignation.