Hi Thomas, Thomas Geier writes:
> But they link their code against SANE, and SANE is GPL licensed. They link *some* of their code against *some* parts of SANE, and SANE is GPL licensed *with a special exception* for the bulk of its code. > So doesn't this enforce their code to be GPL licensed, independent of > what they say? That depends entirely on what parts of their they link with what parts of the SANE code *and* how the various pieces of their "backend" work. Although I have not conducted a thorough investigation, I do not think that their backends violates the license under which the SANE Project releases it code. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
