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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
I just read that the Sane library software will be used by the closed,
non-free program Vuescan. See the announcement at
http://www.hamrick.com/
So far I know, this is not allowed for GPL Version 2 software, like
Sane. Am I correct?
Gerber van der Graaf gerber.vdgraaf at gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
So far I know, this is not allowed for GPL Version 2 software, like
Sane. Am I correct?
SANE is not GPLv2.
JB.
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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,
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
