>> >Does anyone who contributed to SANE have reservations against
>> SANE >becoming a GNU program?
Andy> Yes I do. Due to similar reasoning like Michael.
OK, noted.
Andy> GNU licensing is a good thing. It keeps things free. But
Andy> enforcing it is not good. We would be closing out some
Andy> possible customers as well as programmers.
Note that the licensing issue is independent of whether SANE is a GNU
program or not. I'm sure FSF has no problem with the API being public
domain and the "relaxed GPL" is something that the FSF itself proposed
to facilitate building commercial programs with GNU libraries.
Andy> IMHO making the license LGPL should be safer ...
Have you _read_ the LGPL? It's much more restrictive than the relaxed
GPL. IIRC, it doesn't permit static linking. This is the reason the
relaxed GPL was invented.
Anyway, it is clear that there is no concensus to make SANE part of
GNU, so things will stay the way they are.
--david
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