[sane-devel] New backends eSCL

[thierry at ordissimo.com]

Le 2019-11-10 11:26, Olaf Meeuwissen a écrit :
> Hi Thierry,
> 
> thierry at ordissimo.com writes:
> 
>> Le 2019-11-08 11:17, thierry at ordissimo.com a écrit:
>>> Hello,
>>> We present to you the beta version of the sane backend taking on 
>>> board
>>> the eSCL protocol.
> 
> Cool!
> 
> There have been several posts to the list mentioning support for eSCL,
> IIRC.  Good to see there is continued interest in getting this to work.
> 
>>> the list of potentially scanned scanners is long:
>>> Canon Pixma TS6260, Canon Pixma TS3150, ....
>>> Nous l'avons mis dans la GPL3, idéalement, une fois terminé, nous
>>> aimerions qu'il soit intégré à sane.
>> Sorry :)
>> We put it in the GPL3, ideally, once finished, we would like it to be
>> integrated with sane.
> 
> As a FSF Associate Member, I'm glad to see you put this under the GPL3
> and hope that actually means GPL version 3, or later :-)
> 
The project is under license GPL + 3 and Later.
>>> https://gitlab.com/sane-escl/sane-escl
> 
> I had a look and noticed in the README that you developed the backend
> while working at a company called ORDISSIMO.  In addition, I did not
> find any copyright and license assignments in your sources.  This made
> me wonder a bit about the legal status of the sane-escl project.
> 
I worked with a trainee on this project, the result exceeds my 
expectations.
We hope that "sane" will integrate it.
I will add the license entries in each file.
> I would suggest you mention the copyright and license in every single
> source file.  Something like
> 
>   Copyright (C) 2019  <name of copyright holder>
> 
>   SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
> 
> As for the copyright holder, I am concerned that this may actually be
> ORDISSIMO rather than you and that maybe ORDISSIMO does not want this
> to be released under that license.  So please carefully clarify this
> with ORDISSIMO before pushing any changes.
> 
> # I sincerely hope ORDISSIMO does want to release it under that 
> license,
> # though, if they are the copyright holder.
> 
> In case you yourself actually are the copyright holder, then, of 
> course,
> you are free to pick any license you like for *your* code.
> 
> # To clarify, the company I work at owns the copyright of any code I
> # write at the office as a result of the work contract I have.  Any 
> code
> # that I write in my own time, indepently of and without reference to
> # what I did at the office, is copyright me (or whomever I deem to be
> # appropriate).
> 
> Now, as for integration with SANE, I'd welcome that.  As self-appointed
> SANE Project Janitor, I would be able to help out with getting 
> sane-escl
> under the umbrella of the SANE Project, i.e. become a project in the
> GitLab sane-project group.
> 
> An alternative would be to add the sane-escl sources to the backends
> project but I'm not sure that that is the best way forward as that 
> would
> tie it to the sane-backend release cycle.  Perhaps frequent releases of
> sane-escl, especially in the beginning(?), might benefit its exposure
> and progress.
> 
> In addition, there may be license concerns when adding it to the
> backends project as most, but not all, of its code has an exception to
> the GPL that basically makes most backends LGPL.
> 
> Anyway, continue making the sane-escl backend better than it already is
> (haven't tried it :-P) and please clarify the copyright and license of
> its code.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> --
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