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<title>sane-devel: Re: Star Office and scanner</title>
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<h1>Re: Star Office and scanner</h1>
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<b>Nick Lamb</b> (<a href="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><i>njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</i></a>)<br>
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<i>Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:32:46 +0100 (BST)</i>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0309.html">=?iso-8859-1?Q?Donnchadh_=D3_Donnabh=E1in?=: "Scanner internals and SANE backends"</a>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0307.html">henk van der knaap: "Re: Microtek Scanmaker 35t"</a>
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:<br>
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<i>> If they would support the DLL interface any configuration should work. But</i><br>
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<i>> if they were to borrow code from SANE they would make StarOffice a GPL</i><br>
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<i>> product. (Not that I would mind. But they propably will.)</i><br>
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Not true if they're just using SANE to provide backends for a proprietary<br>
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SANE frontend. The standard SANE boilerplate includes an explicit<br>
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exemption for the backends when linked statically into a proprietary<br>
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application.<br>
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I think this is (for now) a good decision, because the SANE backends mostly<br>
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work with low-level hardware driver stuff. In a differently structured<br>
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operating system, their functionality might well be an OS driver module.<br>
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So we have no reason to deny this functionality to proprietary software<br>
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developers.<br>
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NB Although *linking* the backends to proprietary software is allowed, the<br>
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GPL remains in force in every other way. If they find a HP bug and fix it<br>
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in their static binary, they must provide source code for the fixed HP<br>
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backend in order to be permitted to distribute it. More likely they'll<br>
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choose to send the HP developer a fix, and ask that he integrate it...<br>
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Nick. IANAL<br>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0307.html">henk van der knaap: "Re: Microtek Scanmaker 35t"</a>
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