http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543178
User jsmeix@novell.com added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543178#c2
Johannes Meixner changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
CC| |lnussel@novell.com
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #2 from Johannes Meixner 2009-10-01 02:16:17 MDT ---
According to
http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/
gscan2pdf is a GUI to produce a multipage PDF or DjVu
from several scanned images.
Regarding DjVu:
According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu
"The mask image is compressed using a method called JB2
(similar to JBIG2)."
and "JBIG" rings my alarm bells because JBIG has patent
issues, see
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/patents.html
I don't know about JB2 but I feel unsafe
so that - if at all - we could only package it
after a thorough analysis regarding legal issues
with gscan2pdf - do not confuse GPL sources
with other possible legal issues, carefully read
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=342704#c1
According to
http://www.xsane.org/doc/sane-xsane-multipage-doc.html
XSane supports multipage PDF too so that I wonder
if we really need gscan2pdf.
I.e. what is the advantage of gscan2pdf over XSane?
I close this request for a new package with "wontfix"
because we already provide the functionality via XSane
and the new package might even cause legal issues.
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