Why doesn VNCScan have an integrated VNC viewer?
The main reason for this is out of respect for the open source VNC developers and to remain in compliance with the GNU Public License under which the VNC source code is covered. We recognize that other VNC based products have modified the open source VNC viewer, renamed it as their own brand, and have openly refused to freely give back their modified source code. We want to be absolutely sure that we are set apart from this practice and would like to appeal to the conscience of those companies who use VNC source code in their applications without complying with the GPL. It’s not fair to the community and highly unethical. The other reason for using the standard VNC viewers is because we recognize that we would be reinventing the wheel so to speak every time that there was a new release of VNC for each supported flavor. We would much rather put that programming power into new innovations.
