Re: [sane-devel] Canon Scanner P-208 II

2016-09-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Oliver, Oliver Jan Krylow writes: > My apologies, I overlooked the language in my haste. > > Am I understanding this correctly, the whole driver is under some kind > of proprietary license, except for some GPL'd glue code between SANE > and some magic binary blob? That and the fact that their

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Scanner P-208 II

2016-09-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
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,

Re: [sane-devel] [Janitorial] Zero(!) compiler warnings

2016-09-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi again! Olaf Meeuwissen writes: > Hi devs, > > About a year ago, I set out trying to get rid of *all* compiler warnings > on a "well-defined" build platform. I'm happy to report that we've made > it! With the commit of ee550e5d[1], the debian-8-full build[2], is free > of compiler warnings! >

Re: [sane-devel] [Janitorial] Zero(!) compiler warnings

2016-09-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Allan, Olaf Meeuwissen writes: > m. allan noah writes: > >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen >> wrote: > >>> ... next are four linker warnings about the use of `mktemp`, which, as >>> we all know, is racey and should be avoided. Like the plague, so I'd >>> like to see these g