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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">We want to modify backend for Epson (epsonds / epson2) and provide it to the customer from our Web site,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">because recent selling scanner models support and some feature correction are required to that customer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">In such case, the following understanding about license and distribution is correct?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">+ In our understanding, the license of Epson backend (epsonds / epson2) is GPL v2. Then, we would like to include the following
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:11.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">license file to the package.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:10.5pt"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/blob/master/COPYING">https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/blob/master/COPYING</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:11.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">Is our understanding correct?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">+ When distributing to that customer, we want to distribute it with the Git patch style (i.e. only modified code, not whole package) as below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI""> <Distribution Package><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI""> Source Code only modified portion with Git patch style<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:11.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI""> License file
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/blob/master/COPYING">https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/blob/master/COPYING</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">Is there any problems with the above packaging?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">Please advise to the above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">In this case, this modification and distribution is only for the specific Epson scanner models and environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">Then, we would like to investigate about how feedback this modification to SANE Project in the near future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Meiryo UI"">I.Nakamura<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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