Hi Josh On 2015-08-15 09:25:33, Josh Warner <silvertrumpet999@gmail.com> wrote:
Three potential solutions come to mind:
- Remove `lena` from the package, raising an error informing the user the image is not free and directing them to `astronaut`. - Simply alias all queries for `lena` to `astronaut`, with a warning. - Instead of loading from disk, have `imread` obtain this image from a permalinked URL. Ideally an aliased one we can redirect if a host dies. We could have a couple fallback URLs, too. Biggest question is what to do if no internet connection is available.
I favor the first or third solutions.
I am in favor of option 1. I think option 3 still will allow our users to accidentally use copyrighted imagery, while our policy is that all images are freely redistributable. The problem is that Lena was used to generate a whole bunch of tests results in Matlab, stored as .npy files. I no longer have access to the script that generated those. Looking at those tests (mostly in the morphology submodule), I think it would be better if we could re-engineer the tests to look at image properties, rather than to compare them pixel-for-pixel to MATLAB results. Doing that will require some work. Stéfan