On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Izico Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, fprint team members, > > I have an Indian client in POS terminal OEM industry, we use a > Futronics FS90 Mini USB finger print device. > > Futronics give us a free image capture SDK, the images quality is very > good, 300x440, with ridge, minitia very clearly shown, but they > refused to give any source code. > > And Futronics has a fingerprint recognition software too, they > requested US$1,000 from us to give the closed source recognition SDK. > > After studying online for some days, I decided to use your libfprint > as our framework, as I trust the NIBS used by FBI. > > I plan to write a FS90 driver to wrap the closed source FS90 SDK > inside, is there any legal issue to do this way? I know your code is > LGPL. > > If I remember correctly, libfprint was particularly designed so that integrating closed-source "fingerprint scan" code with libfprint's open-source "fingerprint recognition" code is next to impossible. This was done intentionally as to promote the use of open source throughout. The topic has been discussed many times over on the mailing list and although the official position of fprint developers shifted, nothing was done to the code ...yet. I'm wondering if you are going to be able to do it. - Artem PS. I do not represent the fprint developers officially or non-officially. Any opinions expressed here are my own and any mistakes and inaccuracies in the accounts are solely to blame on my memory.
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