"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: Hi,
> IMHO, that exception was to allow proprietary front-ends, not backend > pieces. Specifically the use of the the term 'link against such a > library', implies that proprietary code could dlopen a backend, but > not that the backend could dlopen a proprietary library, which we see > with various external backends. Olaf, the above paragraph is absolutely correct, and you interpreted the license backwards. The SANE license (GPL + exception) was designed before the LGPL was written; it's roughly equivalent to the LGPL in its intent. This has been discussed on this list already, with Henning telling just what I wrote. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
