David N. Paules wrote: > I subscribed to this developer list to monitor and hopefully contribute to > getting my lame UMAX Astra 2100U working natively on Mac OS X. Apparently > that will never happen. I then noticed lots of messages about Epsons, and > other 'big name' scanner vendors. This got me to wonder. While the SANE > project is a fascinating and honorable goal, is anyone selling the benefits > of SANE to the scanner manufacturers?
The reason you'll read the name Epson pretty often might be, that they make scanner/printer which do a good job for the money and even better, they support Linux and SANE, the libs coming with iscan the scanner package installs into /usr/lib/sane/. The software (pips-sprx600_610-cups-2.6.2 & iscan-1.9.0) I downloaded to get Epson Stylus Photo RX600 running, came with source and contains a file "COPYING" where it says "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE". So at least, it looks like Epson is already doing what you ask for.;) Michael Heiming
