On 24/01/2013 02:44, Ruell Magpayo wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am an engineer from Kyocera and we are writing the SANE support for
> Kyocera home based MFP devices,
>
> We came across a problem that needs feedback from SANE community,
>
> our situation is, all Kyocera scanner uses a 3^rd party API for bank
> notes scanning prevention, this library is confidential and cannot be
> distributed along with the source code. Even Kyocera driver engineers
> does not have access to the source code of the said library.
>
> So we are left with the following options;
>
> 1.Distribute Kyocera backends(*.so,etc) as binaries only.
>
> 2.Include the backend source code to sane distribution and just link
> the 3^rd party API
>
> Is the above option allowed in SANE?
>
> If not then can the community suggest a better approach for this?
>
> We have no problem in including the backend source code to the
> standard SANE distribution if not for the 3^rd party library I mention
> above.
>
> Hope you guys can help us on this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ruell
>
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Hello,
is this 3rd party library required to make the backend work ? Can
it scan without it ?
Regards,
Stef
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