<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 10:57 AM Mike Hansen <<a href="mailto:ambirdev@outlook.com">ambirdev@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg6393387476993402969">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ambir Technology is a manufacturer of scanners and we would like to post a closed source SANE driver to your site for two of our scanners. One of the major virtualization providers that uses Linux as a backbone of it’s system is requiring
SANE drivers to be posted to your site. We would appreciate instructions on how/where to post the drivers.</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The only reference that we have to proprietary drivers is in this page, where we provide links: <a href="http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html">http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>We do not host proprietary drivers or binary blobs. I'm quite happy to add links to your drivers on that page however.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg6393387476993402969"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-6741934877562057943WordSection1">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, we would be interested in providing SANE drivers for many of our other scanners. If any SANE developers are interested, we would be interested in contracting you to develop the drivers. We have the Linux drivers built out for
x86/x64 and can provide the .so files. Your work would involve building out the SANE interface. In essence, the hardware layer is already built out as an SDK, you only need to interact with it and all of the USB/port/etc calls are taken care of by the SDK.
You would simply be making calls to set DPI/Color/Simplex/Duplex/etc. If you are interested in performing contract work in this area, feel free to reach out to us at this e-mail address.</p>
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</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you are looking for the SANE Project to support a free/open source frontend to a proprietary blob then I don't think that it is something that we could provide from the project or host here. That's not to say that a SANE developer wouldn't be interested on working on it for you. That would be entirely up to them. The advantages of an open source backend of course is that it can be built to support a variety of platforms and modified as Linux distros (and BSD/Windows/AIX etc...) evolve over time to remain functional. Many proprietary drivers have become unusable over time because of this time-based rot. :(<br></div><div><br></div><div>I welcome scanner manufacturers reaching out to the project for cooperation: we see so little of that of late. It's just a shame that many still insist on closed-source blobs to be a component of them.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my personal opinion of course. Others may disagree.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ralph<br></div></div></div>