To clarify Julien's statement further, SANE's license contains an exception which allows exactly this kind of use. I personally don't like this exception, but it is an artifact of the past, impossible to change now.
But, Hamrick's decision to use SANE as a library instead of stealing its code, is actually a step in the right direction. IMHO, this is more in line with the original intent of the exception. allan On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Gerber van der Graaf <gerber.vdgraaf at gmail.com> wrote: > A quick search learns me this is a GPL violation: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL > > In case I am right, what can be done against this practice? Its quite a > pity for all those contributors who generously provided their code to > Sane and will be used in a closed source, commercial application. Should > any contributor go after the author individually, or is there a common > board who will take care of this, FSF for example? > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
