[sane-devel] Header files required to build backends

[Stef]

On 03/04/2014 14:27, m. allan noah wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:10 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> On 04/03/2014 01:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> On 04/03/2014 01:23 PM, m. allan noah wrote:
>>>> Which header files do they need?
>>>
>>> Excerpt from the source code [1]:
>>
>> Ok, I figured out that sane-backends has these additional headers
>> in EXTRA_DIST in include/Makefile.am.
>>
>> Does this mean that sane-backends is not designed to allow backends
>> to be built externally? Thus, if I want to build the Canon drivers,
>> I will have to have the full sources of sane-backends at hand?
>>
> That is exactly what it means. Those interfaces are not stable and not
> considered part of the 'interface' of sane. In my opinion, backends
> that use them but include closed source components are skirting the
> edges of their legal rights, by denying you yours.
>
> allan
>
     Hello,

     I second that. There is a different copyright notice for the public 
API and for the private internal includes.

Regards,
     Stef