On Monday 28 of September 2009 13:04:06 Artem Egorkine wrote:
> 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.
>
Hi,
the "image driver" problem has been discussed before, and Daniel suggested
that it might be included/accepted, but no one wrote it yet. the problem would
probably be libfprints assumption that all devices are accessed using libusb,
which is not the case with "image driver". the major rework would have to wait
until Daniel (Author/developer) has some time.
your best choice would probably be to use NBIS directly, unless you want to
use other scanners as well.
Pavel Herrmann
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