[sane-devel] Panasonic KVSS905C SCSI driver
Frank Zago
sane at zago.net
Mon Oct 1 21:46:20 UTC 2007
Julien BLACHE a écrit :
> Frank Zago <frank at zago.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>> I looked at the code. It a basic scsi scanner driver. It should take a
>> couple hours work to make a backend, starting from the existing
>> matsushita driver.
>>
>> The only problem IMHO is the license, and the testing.
>>
>
> Apache 2.0, indeed, the license sucks big time ...
>
If someone wants to do the work, may be he can get Google to relicense
the code.
> But the license only covers the code, not the knowledge you can gain
> by reading it.
>
Well, the code is so basic it's going to be a cut and paste.
> I don't know how close these scanners are from the ones supported by
> the matsushita backend already, so ...
>
AFAICT, the work flow is the same. But some of the SCSI commands used
are more recent, and the window format is different. That's why a new
driver should be written instead of using the existing one.
>
>> And when I see how simple these scanners are, I don't understand
>> Panasonic's need for an NDA.
>>
>
> Big companies and their NDAs ...
>
Precious IP that anyone why a scsi analyser can reverse in less than a day.
Frank.
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