Hi, On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:43:40PM -0700, Maurice Hilarius wrote: [...] > In looking at what he provides I believe that he is likely breaking the GPL > already.. [...] > And his blatant admission that he is using SANE code in his product really > seals it for me, at least: > "I use the same sanei_scsi_open routine that SANE uses"
We (at least me) know that Vuescan uses sanei_scsi. Just grep through the code, it's not hidden. Concerning GNU GPL: This file (and most of the other sane backend related stuff) is GPL+SANE exception (see header + LICENSE). The intention of this exception was probably to allow linking against backends without making the binary itsself GPLed. In this case, only part of backends is used (sanei_scsi). At least it's not that clear that this is forbidden by the license. But I'm not a lawyer. On the other hand it would be nice to at least mention the use of SANE code somewhere on the website or in Vuescan itsself. And if the SANE source code was modified before linking it must be published as written in the GNU GPL. Bye, Henning
