Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> writes: > On Mar 26 15:08 Alesh Slovak wrote (shortened): > >> It is the iscan frontend that does, unfortunately, require some binary >> blobs and cannot be compiled for Mac OS X. It would still be possible, >> however, to use the epkowa backend on Mac OS X with other SANE frontends. > > Yes, and I make our iscan-free package for openSUSE > by manually removing all proprietary stuff which is > unfortunately included in the source tarball of the software > so that the whole source tarball is tainted by proprietary stuff. > > Additionally I have a few patches, e.g. a patch to adapt the man page > (basically remove the models which require proprietary stuff).
The list of supported models was dropped from the backend's manual page in 2.14.0. The list is now installed in the package's ${docdir}. FWIW, that list includes what plugins are required, if any, and is generated straight from the NEWS file. > Again and again I request here once more that Avasys > provides well separated source tarballs > - one which contains all the free sources > - as many other ones as you like for your proprietary stuff I do understand your concerns but there is very little chance that they will be addressed. There is very little concrete benefit to do so from our point of view, at a very concrete overhead. > Note that it is crucial to remove the proprietary stuff first of all > from the sources because otherwise the proprietary sources would > end up in our source RPM which may end up at our customers systems > which may not be happy when whatever kind of non-free stuff > is installed (even if it is "only" non-free sources). > In particular those (usually business) customers who care very much > regarding the licenses of all what is installed on their systems. I will keep this in mind for a next incarnation, if there will ever be such a thing. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS Corporation FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962