[sane-devel] external backend license

2016-03-14 Thread ky gcp
Hi, I hope someone have answers to my licensing concern. Based on the text for the exception, they put an exception into the GPL license so that it acts like the LGPL license. This allows linking (probably dynamic) against the library, but would not cover compiling directly with the code. 1) If w

Re: [sane-devel] sane_read() parameters

2016-03-09 Thread ky gcp
large (to save memory), but you then have to be > careful not to overflow it when the frontend is draining it slowly. > > allan > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:14 AM, ky gcp wrote: > > Thank you for such quick response, allan. Do you mean to say that the > value > > of maxlen

Re: [sane-devel] sane_read() parameters

2016-03-08 Thread ky gcp
; save memory, some try to maximize speed by using large buffers, some > try to fill a network packet exactly. You can (and should expect) to > get any value of maxlen from 1 byte to perhaps a 1M, maybe more. > > allan > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 8:23 PM, ky gcp wrote: > > why

Re: [sane-devel] sane_read() parameters

2016-03-08 Thread ky gcp
why does the value of maxlen vary from various frontends? On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:06 PM, m. allan noah wrote: > maxlen is provided by the caller of the function, to tell the backend > how much memory the caller has allocated for image data. > > allan > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016

[sane-devel] sane_read() parameters

2016-03-08 Thread ky gcp
hi, how is the argument maxlen determined in sane_read() function? SANE_Status sane_read (SANE_Handle h, SANE_Byte * buf, SANE_Int maxlen, SANE_Int * len); Thanks for your help. -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinf

[sane-devel] compile external backend without sane-backends source

2016-03-01 Thread ky gcp
Hi sane-devel, Is it possible to compile an external backend without the sane-backends source? Thank you. -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_passwor