[sane-devel] vendor linux drivers for Epson scanners

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:11:42 +0100


Hi,

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:26:38PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote:
> So, maybe some of you would like to check this out:
> http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/index.html

That's the epkowa backend. Our lists already point to it, e.g. try
searching for the Epson 1260:

http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=epson&model=1260&bus=any

> And they license it under LGPL and GPL !

Part of the code is governed by the "EPSON KOWA Public Licence" which
isn't a free license. Ther is no source code for those libraries.

Bye,
  Henning