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<h1>Re: forwarded message from Richard Stallman</h1>
<b>hank</b> (<a href="mailto:hank@black-hole.com"><i>hank@black-hole.com</i></a>)<br>
<i>Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:17:29 -0600 (CST)</i>
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; Does anyone who contributed to SANE have reservations against SANE</i><br>
<i>&gt; becoming a GNU program? I think making SANE a GNU program would be</i><br>
<i>&gt; beneficial to both parties (SANE developers &amp; FSF).</i><br>
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I've not contributed to SANE myself (yet, I hope to get a backend working<br>
soon if noone beats me to it, but work is not progressing) but let me<br>
suggest the following:<br>
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Parts GNU, parts something else. That is I don't think anyone would have<br>
a problem with a Backend being GNU. I would like to see a useable<br>
implimention that can be distributed anouther way. Perhaps a artistic or<br>
BSD style license as an alternative, but just applying to peices. <br>
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What I'm trying to propose is that assuming someday we have a working MAC<br>
and Windows frontend, a manufacture can take our stuff, compile a backend<br>
for their new scanner, put their name on it (with credit to us in the<br>
about box) and ship drivers for all operating systems easially. If our<br>
backend is good enough, it would save them significant effort, while also<br>
giving them the ability to put "Network compatable" on the box. <br>
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Again, let me remind people that the protcol already follows this model,<br>
I'd like to see the option of including some code. For the backends it<br>
really isn't a big deal since each backend is by nature different. For<br>
the frontends and middleware, it would help SANE get accepted as a<br>
standard to allow it to be this easially sold.<br>
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