Re: [sane-devel] A Cooperation Message from Plustek Inc.

2016-11-01 Thread Roger
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 06:10:36AM +0100, Gjermund ??? Gusland Thorsen wrote: >This sounds like a dream come true. Can you please enlighten the other printer >manufacturers? One of the main reasons I have not purchased any of their Plustek film scanners. -- Roger

Re: [sane-devel] A Cooperation Message from Plustek Inc.

2016-11-01 Thread littlesincanada
Hi, I am the software PM from Plustek Inc. We are a major scanner manufacturer in Taiwan. We meet many linux driver support requests from our customers. Linux has many distributions and versions and also sane too, we need put many RD resources to porting our driver to many version now. It's

Re: [sane-devel] A Cooperation Message from Plustek Inc.

2016-11-01 Thread Yury Tarasievich
On 01/11/16 21:11, Richard Ryniker wrote: ... What happens when Plustek builds a new scanner? Who will want to go through new Plustek code and do this again, when they have other things to do? A better alternative is to have Plustek adapt their code to SANE. Surely ... Would be good to

Re: [sane-devel] A Cooperation Message from Plustek Inc.

2016-11-01 Thread Richard Ryniker
>Isn't requiring anything beyond the point 1 a teensy bit over-reaching? Regarding binary stuff, no. If some blob of firmware must be delivered to the scanner, this firmware must be made available under terms that allow it to be copied and used by anyone who wishes to have SANE operate with a

[sane-devel] Backend pieusb not working for Reflecta Crystalscan 7200

2016-11-01 Thread Vleeshouwers, J.M.
Hi Klaus & Michael, I haven't been using my scanner (Reflecta Crystalscan 7200) for quite some time, but when I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04, I decided to check whether the backend available from https://github.com/kkaempf/sane-backends works. I'm afraid it does not. With the available

Re: [sane-devel] A Cooperation Message from Plustek Inc.

2016-11-01 Thread Yury Tarasievich
On 01/11/16 14:37, m. allan noah wrote: Jenson- The SANE project certainly could accept your code for inclusion into our repository, if a few conditions are met. Namely: 1. The code must be completely open and suitable for use with our license. No binary or precompiled code, other than possible

Re: [sane-devel] A Cooperation Message from Plustek Inc.

2016-11-01 Thread m. allan noah
Jenson- The SANE project certainly could accept your code for inclusion into our repository, if a few conditions are met. Namely: 1. The code must be completely open and suitable for use with our license. No binary or precompiled code, other than possible firmware uploads. 2. The code must use