m. allan noah wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ed Hamrick <EdHamrick at aol.com> wrote: > > 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.
"looked at"? i don't believe that's true. that implies there's some sort of unpublished trade secret in play. copyright applies to expression, not concept. paul =--------------------- paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 25.3 degrees)
