-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-11-30 02:14, m. allan noah wrote: > 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.
A number of backends do not use this exception, either for all of their code or part of it. > 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. Ed Hamrick had better check very carefully which part of the SANE libraries he uses for Vuescan. > 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? Hope this helps, - -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkz0OPMACgkQt5qrxaZLMnIrAACeIY0jrW9H9ez8JR7sw7H7Fmhn H9AAoJRUocw/5+J8YtBLE9qsr8lmqBMj =gJic -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----