[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?

[sane-devel] Visioneer 6200USB backend

2008-06-05 Thread Anderson Lizardo
2008/6/5 Kyle Dickerson : > 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: http://viceo.orconhosting.net.

[sane-devel] Branch for sane-frontends

2008-06-05 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/4/08, stef wrote: > Hello, > > to maintain the curent 1.0.x version of sane-backends I propose to tag > current sources with: > DEVEL_1_0_TRUNK i just made this tag. > > Then make a branch: > DEVEL_1_0_BRANCH i did not make the branch, we can make it later from t

[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 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 'midd

[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" 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? Would you please give me som

[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