Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

2016-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Allan, I just dashed off a rather long explation to James and the list. m. allan noah writes: > I personally am of the opinion that Brother is in violation of our > license. However, our license is not strictly GPL, and the differences > were clearly not written by a lawyer. You could argue

Re: [sane-devel] "No: command not found" when building sane-backends

2016-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Tristan, list, Olaf Meeuwissen writes: > Tristan Miller writes: > >> Greetings. >> >> On Saturday, September 17, 2016 3:37:26 PM CEST m. allan noah wrote: >>> Hmm, sounds like fig2dev is missing on your machine, and we mistakenly >>> tested for it and let the string 'no' sneak thru when it

Re: [sane-devel] "No: command not found" when building sane-backends

2016-09-18 Thread Tristan Miller
Greetings. On Sunday, September 18, 2016 9:47:32 PM CEST Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I confused dhl with a well known mail carrier in configure.ac. On top > of that, I forgot to add the fig2dev check. Fixes have been pushed and > things should be all well on master. Thanks! I've verified that

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

2016-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi, James A. Robinson writes: > I was wondering whether or not any of the developers here know the > story behind the Brother scanner drivers? They offer a Debian > package that identifies itself as GPL, and that claims it is based > on sane-backends.When I asked them about getting ahold

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

2016-09-18 Thread m. allan noah
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi Allan, > > I just dashed off a rather long explation to James and the list. > > m. allan noah writes: > >> I personally am of the opinion that Brother is in violation of our >> license. However, our license is

Re: [sane-devel] Eventually got a debug log running ET-4500 with backend epson2 over network

2016-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Roger, Roger Sewell writes: > Olaf, and whoever kindly maintains the epson2 backend: > > Please find attached a debug log of my attempt to run a 2-page scan from > the ADF of an Epson ET-4500 using the epson2 backend over the network. Thanks for the log. Comparing the log with the code I

Re: [sane-devel] Eventually got a debug log running ET-4500 with backend epson2 over network

2016-09-18 Thread Roger Sewell
Olaf, > Thanks for the log. Comparing the log with the code I noticed that > you are using sane-backends-1.0.24 (yes, I should have noticed from > your previous mail ;-). The logs hint at a low-level network I/O > error. Thank you... > Could you upgrade to 1.0.25? There are some notes on

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

2016-09-18 Thread James A. Robinson
I appreciate your contacting them about the discrepancy. We'll see what they say (as you indicate, my own suspicion is that they will say nothing). BTW, regarding making sure to read the EULA, I assume you noticed that you can't actually get to the point where you see what architecture are

Re: [sane-devel] Eventually got a debug log running ET-4500 with backend epson2 over network

2016-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Roger, Roger Sewell writes: >> Could you upgrade to 1.0.25? There are some notes on network scanner >> fixes as well as timeout and scanner crash fixes for 1.0.25 that might >> just fix things for you. That is, if you want to drop that non-free >> plugin needed by the imagescan/utsushi

Re: [sane-devel] [niash] Fix unused-but-set-variable compiler warning

2016-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
On 2016-08-28, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi Gerhard, > > The startBlackX variable in SimpleClibExt() from niash_core.c is flagged > as set but unused by gcc on my debian-8-full build. I was going to just > remove it but wondered if it ought to be used. I removed it in fb0464d and pushed that

[sane-devel] SANE license interpretation (was Re: SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner)

2016-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Allan, m. allan noah writes: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen > wrote: >> Hi Allan, >> >> I just dashed off a rather long explation to James and the list. >> >> m. allan noah writes: >> >>> I personally am of the opinion that Brother is in

Re: [sane-devel] [pieusb] Fix unused-parameter compiler warnings

2016-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Klaus, Your vacation service mentioned you'd be away until 2016-09-13. Have you had a chance to look at this already? I have a patch lined up that simply removes all the unused code. If that's fine with you (or I don't get a reply ;-), I'll just go ahead and push it at the end of September.

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

2016-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
James A. Robinson writes: > I appreciate your contacting them about the discrepancy. We'll see what > they say (as you indicate, my own suspicion is that they will say nothing). > > BTW, regarding making sure to read the EULA, I assume you noticed that you > can't actually get to the point