[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-05 Thread Wang Mengqiang
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[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-05 Thread Wang Mengqiang
Thank you for your reply and truth.

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-05 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Jun 4 21:02 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): SANE is GPL, with an added exception to allow proprietary front-end programs to link against it. What you are suggesting is the opposite- you wish to have a free 'middleware' layer, which loads closed backends to do that actual work? I

[sane-devel] Visioneer 6200USB backend

2008-06-05 Thread Anderson Lizardo
2008/6/5 Kyle Dickerson kyle.dickerson at gmail.com: I have a Visioneer 6200USB and am interested in trying to write a backend for it, or at least providing as much information about the model as possible. I don't have this scanner, but you may want to try the source code from this link:

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-05 Thread Daniel Glöckner
Hello, On 5 Jun 08 08:28, Wang Mengqiang wrote: 1) In the development, we plan to use several special modules which do not contain any open source code from sane or other party, because they contain some tecnology that we do not want to open. May I ask what functionality is contained in

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-05 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Jun 5 15:55 Daniel Gl?ckner wrote (shortened): It may sound naive, but usually a scanner driver just needs to write some registers and accept the incoming image data. I don't see what needs to be hidden in that process. ... Maybe it is possible to make your driver compile with a

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-05 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hello, On Jun 4 21:02 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): SANE is GPL, with an added exception to allow proprietary front-end programs to link against it. What you are suggesting is the opposite- you wish to have a free

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-05 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:02:08 +0800 Wang Mengqiang WangMengqiang at canon-ib.com.cn wrote: Thank you for your reply and truth. From your reply, it seems there is no way to use other modules, for example, if we buy some modules from other company without source code, how to deal with it?

[sane-devel] Visioneer 6200USB backend

2008-06-05 Thread Kyle Dickerson
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[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-05 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
Wang Mengqiang, I am not one of the regular SANE developers, but I am quite active in another, similar project, Gphoto, which supports digital still cameras. I find this thread interesting because it raises issues which affect us all. I hope very much that the SANE developers will not mind if