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

[m. allan noah]

On 6/6/08, Daniel Glöckner <daniel-gl at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.

yes- i think you are right, unless you think SANE is a 'system
library'. While it is not the kernel, and not part of libc, and it is
in user space, SANE is definately drivers, and i daresay most
definitions of 'system' are going to include drivers.

allan
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