On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold at kainhofer.com> wrote: > On 2012-06-21 23:19, m. allan noah wrote: >> >> Clearly the license of magicolor applies to you now, though i wonder >> if the magicolor license is legitimate, based on its origin? > > > Sorry, I don't understand which concerns you have. The magicolor backend is > a fork of the GPL'ed epson2 backend, adjusted to magicolor-specific > functionality and scanner protocol. > The magicolor backend is under the GPL, too, so I don't think there should > be any concern as to the ligitimacy of the license or the backend.
Yes- but epson2 claims to be based on epson, which was GPL + SANE exception. Perhaps epson2 has a license problem, though I hate to point it out, since I am unhappy with the wording of the exception. allan > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Reinhold Kainhofer, reinhold at kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ > ?* Financial& ?Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria > ?* http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 > ?* LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
