> So once the GPLed code has been found ok I think it > can get part of > sane-frontends.
Excellent! > Concerning japi I think we should pack it into a > .tar.gz file, put in > on the ftp server and link to it somewhere in case > somebody is still > interested. Then it can be removed from > sane-backends CVS. That sounds like the right thing. I doubt there could be any active projects still using it, but if there are, they could get it. > I'll just put it on the fronetnds page similar to > the other frontends > with a link to you and an explanation that the code > is part of > sane-frontends. Excellent! Thank you! Now that I know that SANE is open to this, I need to do a little bit of refactoring, etc, to get it ready to go as an API. Basically, the way it will work is there will be a Scanner class which will use providers. Sane will be the provider for Linux systems. With the provider model, anyone who uses the API won't have to worry about whether it is Sane (on Linux) or TWAIN or whatever. They will just use the generic Scanner interface. This is the same way most things work in Java. For example you write a database application without making reference to any specific database, so the same app will work on Oracle, Postgres, etc. This will allow people to start writing more Scanner applications for Java. Right now there are not so many because it's so platform-specific, and Java coders don't like platform-specific stuff. So I'll get that separated out and on our website within a few days, and then you can review it and hopefully put it on as an official part of SANE, although maybe not in the sane-frontends.tar.gz per se. I'll probably also put in a very simple demo application which makes a scan and saves a JPEG. All the code that we submit will be under the GPL. >From a biz point of view, that's our only choice. Now if only there were some better open source OCR options. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
