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<title>SANE and Commercial Applications/Drivers</title>
<h2><a name="s6">6 SANE and Commercial Applications/Drivers</a></h2>
<p>What's our position with respect to commercial SANE drivers or
applications? In the spirit of the GNU Public License, it is
preferrable to have the source for SANE programs available.
However, it is permissible to write a dynamically loaded,
commercial SANE driver on Linux and other platforms that support
dynamic loading. (Drivers are always dynamically loaded, so this
doesn't cause any extra work.) By the same token, it is also proper
to write a commercial application that links with the libsane.so
shared library. The basic ideas supporting this position are:
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<p><li>Healthy competition between commercial and free programs is an
asset, not a liability.
<p><li>The more wide-spread use SANE finds, the better for the
Linux/Unix community.
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