[sane-devel] Confrmation about license and distribution

[Steven Santos]

My suggestion would be to post your patch to the list and get feedback on
it here.

On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 8:41 AM Nakamura Iwao <Nakamura.Iwao at exc.epson.co.jp>
wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>
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> We want to modify backend for Epson (epsonds / epson2) and provide it to
> the customer from our Web site,
>
> because recent selling scanner models support and some feature correction
> are required to that customer.
>
> In such case, the following understanding about license and distribution
> is correct?
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> + In our understanding, the license of Epson backend (epsonds / epson2) is
> GPL v2. Then, we would like to include the following
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> license file to the package.
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> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/blob/master/COPYING
>
> Is our understanding correct?
>
>
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> + When distributing to that customer, we want to distribute it with the
> Git patch style (i.e. only modified code, not whole package) as below:
>
>   <Distribution Package>
>
>            Source Code    only modified portion with Git patch style
>
>         License file
> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/blob/master/COPYING
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> Is there any problems with the above packaging?
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> Please advise to the above.
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> In this case, this modification and distribution is only for the specific
> Epson scanner models and environment.
>
> Then, we would like to investigate about how feedback this modification to
> SANE Project in the near future.
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> I.Nakamura
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