JKD <[email protected]> wrote: Hi,
> I'm writting a program to control hp scanjet 3970 (at this momment I can > not call it 'backend') using reverse engineering to a windows library > provided by HP. And I have a doubt. Due to the structure of the program > is similar to functions debugged in the library... could I have any > legal problems with HP? Could exist any problem in making GPL any code > derived from aplying reverse engineering to a copyrighted library? HP strongly supports Linux, and usually help as much as they can. I don't think they'd go after you for writing a backend for the 3970. You could even try to ask them for the specs, although I don't know what their policy is in this regard. (in such companies the right hand tends to ignore what the left hand does, so...) JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <[email protected]> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
