[sane-devel] Providing the version of SANE used in VueScan

Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org
Tue Jan 27 17:37:43 UTC 2009


"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, it is not weird at all. The GPL is not to punish Rene, it is to
> give rights to Ed (and everyone else). If he has received a legitimate
> copy of ExactScan, he is entitled to the SANE portions. Since
> ExactScan comes as a free trial, everyone is a legitimate user. There
> seems to be no other way to get this code than asking Rene directly.

Except if Rene is the sole copyright holder* on the avision backend, in
which case he can do whatever pleases him with the code. Don't forget
this, hrm, detail.

(*) or other copyright holders agreed to that

JB.

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