[fprint] Alternative proprietary image processing library

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 10:30 +0800, Josh.Chen wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> 
> Thanks for you declaration
> just one more question
> 
> Is possible package image processing into a proprietary libfprint
> driver?

Fingerprint reader drivers live in the same binary as the libfprint
library, so drivers cannot be proprietary. So the answer to that
question is no, given that the premise is incorrect.

Cheers

> Although it may need to create more APIs between libfprint and
> libfprint driver
> 
> Best regards
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bastien Nocera [mailto:hadess at hadess.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 3:38 PM
> To: Josh.Chen; fprint at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [fprint] Alternative proprietary image processing
> library
> 
> On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 09:45 +0800, Josh.Chen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > Because NBIS does not work well on smaller images If there are no 
> > suitable open source image processing alternatives Is it possible 
> > alternative to a proprietary library?
> 
> Absolutely not, libfprint is and needs to remain free software.
> 
> Regards
>