Re: MediSnap - GPLv3 medical photo system - just released

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Hi Jan,

the quite interesting discussion about medisnap endet somehow when we
realised that the non-free SDK from Olympus is a prerequisite for this
software.  However, if you ask me any work which was done regarding a
Debian package should somehow be kept in our repository for two reasons:

  1. It might help users creating their private Debian package
  2. It might be that we somehow might get a replacement for the
     non-free SDK and thus it is good to make some more noise about
     the package and its importance.

So if you have something done for the packaging, would you mind
commiting the according code?

Kind regards

         Andreas.

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 09:22:31PM +0100, Jan Kechel wrote:
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> Andreas Tille wrote:
> > 
> > Can you please be a bit more verbose about this non-free stuff.  For
> > instance:
> > 
> >   1) Is it possible to use MediSnap without these non-free additions
> >      (even if the functionality is reduced)?
> 
> yes.
> 
> Sadly the most cool feature does not work: Take a picture while the
> camera is connected via usb, still having full control over the camera's
> own buttons/menu and automatically having the just token image
> transferred to the pc and displaying it while making the next foto.
> 
> >   2) What exactly is this non-free stuff and where can it be downloaded?
> 
> It is the SDK from Olympus. It's available here:
> http://developer.olympus.com/
> 
> >   3) Is it binary only or is there also the source code?
> 
> It's only binary, neither open nor free. When I got it a few years ago I
> had to register and pay some money for it.
> It's even not for redistribution, except some parts that (according to
> olympus) will be enough to run the camera connection.
> For now i did not release _any_ olympus stuff, but i'll work myself
> through the documentation and work out what i'm allowed to redistribute.
> While not neccessary for debian it's still an important part to release.
> 
> > Does this mean we can/need leave out the non-free part because it will
> > not run on Linux anyway?  This would answer all questions above in one
> > rush and would simplify things from a packagers perspective.
> 
> yes
> 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> >      Andreas.  
> 
> cu,
> 
> jan
> 
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