On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:10:52AM -0400, m. allan noah wrote: > 3. you can write a partly free backend, that dynamically links to the > closed parts, provided that you place a license exception in the free > part allowing said linking. you cannot use any code from SANE, other > than sane.h and the sane specification, in either part. > > 4. you can write an entirely closed backend. you cannot use any code > from SANE, other than sane.h and the sane specification.
All GPL frontends using these backends would need a license exception as well. Daniel
