[sane-devel] Avision.c copyrights

[Paul Fox]

m. allan noah wrote:
 > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ed Hamrick <EdHamrick at aol.com> wrote:
 > > I've asked him to release the source code to avision.c, and
 > > I'm waiting to see it.  I want to see how he got the Xerox
 > > DocuMate 150 working in avision.c.  I don't have one, and
 > > one of my customers wants to use it with VueScan.
 > >
 > 
 > A reasonable request, however it makes your Avision support code a
 > derivative of of SANE, and therefore you must also release that under
 > the GPL when a user asks for all your SANE derived code. The same
 > would be true for any other backends that you looked at or borrowed
 > from.

"looked at"?  i don't believe that's true.  that implies there's
some sort of unpublished trade secret in play.  copyright applies
to expression, not concept.

paul
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