Eyewitness Reports from the SCO Bankruptcy Hearing on SUSE's Motion to Lift Stay
I have now the notes from our own reporters at the hearing in the SCO bankruptcy today. And I have to say, it's looking good for SUSE, judging from MikeD's notes. I think these notes also clarify what SCO's problem is. They don't understand the GPL at all. And their dreams for the future? It looks like they plan to sue folks, if things go their way. And we get what appears to be absolute confirmation that AuzoZone paid something to make SCO go away.
Image::ExifTool::Pentax(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Image::ExifTool::Pentax(3)NAME
Image::ExifTool::Pentax - Pentax/Asahi maker notes tags
SYNOPSIS
This module is loaded automatically by Image::ExifTool when required.
DESCRIPTION
This module contains definitions required by Image::ExifTool to interpret Pentax and Asahi maker notes in EXIF information.
NOTES
I couldn't find a good source for Pentax maker notes information, but I've managed to discover a fair bit of information by analyzing
sample images downloaded from the internet, and through tests with my own Optio WP and K10D, and with help provided by other ExifTool users
(see "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS").
The Pentax maker notes are stored in standard EXIF format, but the offsets used for some of their cameras are wacky. The Optio 330 gives
the offset relative to the offset of the tag in the directory, the Optio WP uses a base offset in the middle of nowhere, and the Optio 550
uses different (and totally illogical) bases for different menu entries. Very weird. (It wouldn't surprise me if Pentax can't read their
own maker notes!) Luckily, there are only a few entries in the maker notes which are large enough to require offsets, so this doesn't
affect much useful information. ExifTool attempts to make sense of this fiasco by making an assumption about where the information should
be stored to deduce the correct offsets.
REFERENCES
Image::MakerNotes::Pentax
<http://johnst.org/sw/exiftags/> (Asahi models)
<http://kobe1995.jp/~kaz/astro/istD.html>
<http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/>
(...plus lots of testing with my Optio WP and K10D!)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Wayne Smith, John Francis, Douglas O'Brien Cvetan Ivanov, Jens Duttke and Dave Nicholson for help figuring out some Pentax tags,
Denis Bourez, Kazumichi Kawabata, David Buret, Barney Garrett, Axel Kellner, Anton Bondar and Albert Bogner for adding to the LensType
list, and Ger Vermeulen and Niels Kristian Bech Jensen for contributing print conversion values for some tags.
AUTHOR
Copyright 2003-2010, Phil Harvey (phil at owl.phy.queensu.ca)
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
"Pentax Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames, Image::ExifTool(3pm), Image::Info(3pm)perl v5.12.1 2010-03-18 Image::ExifTool::Pentax(3)
