On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ed Hamrick <EdHamrick at aol.com> wrote: > Ren? Rebe isn't the sole copyright holder of avision.c, > and he's been making modifications that he hasn't > been putting into SANE. The other copyright holders are: > > Meino Christian Cramer > Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida > > Other contributors (who contributed based on the GPL provisions): > > Gunter Wagner > Martin Jel?nek > Marcin Siennicki > Frank Zago > Avision INC > Franz Bakan > Falk Rohsiepe > > I've asked him to release the source code to avision.c, and > I'm waiting to see it. I want to see how he got the Xerox > DocuMate 150 working in avision.c. I don't have one, and > one of my customers wants to use it with VueScan. >
A reasonable request, however it makes your Avision support code a derivative of of SANE, and therefore you must also release that under the GPL when a user asks for all your SANE derived code. The same would be true for any other backends that you looked at or borrowed from. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
