Lei Chen <Raymond.Chen at Sun.COM> wrote: Hi,
>> agreed. if i were to make sane2 myself, i would change the license to >> straight GPL3. > > Why not LGPL? Is LGPL not so straight for libraries and dynamic > objects? The current license makes thing complex. People have to pay > close attention to GPL libraries and backends, with or without that > exception claiming, in SANE. All backends in SANE are GPL + exception, which is roughly equivalent to the LGPL. Relicensing SANE is not possible, because quite a few copyright holders cannot be reached to obtain permission. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
