[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

[Daniel Glöckner]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:10:52AM -0400, m. allan noah wrote:
> 3. you can write a partly free backend, that dynamically links to the
> closed parts, provided that you place a license exception in the free
> part allowing said linking. you cannot use any code from SANE, other
> than sane.h and the sane specification, in either part.
> 
> 4. you can write an entirely closed backend. you cannot use any code
> from SANE, other than sane.h and the sane specification.

All GPL frontends using these backends would need a license exception
as well.

  Daniel