Hello, On Jun 15 15:44 Halim Issa wrote (shortened): > ... as far as I can see, all the sources required to build the > libsane-brother.* files needed for sane operations all have > the GPL header in them.
The crucial question is if the free software files alone are really sufficient to run the Brother Linux scanner driver. If I remember correctly (I checked it a longer time ago), there is an additional non-free library (no source code, binary-only only for 32-bit Intel compatible hardware, non-free license, ...) which is additionally required to run the Brother Linux scanner driver. Actually - as far as I see - this proprietary library implements all what is really interesting of the driver (i.e. all the hardware-specific details). I didn't check the current version. Please check carefully again, if the free software files alone are really sufficient to run the Brother Linux scanner driver. By the way: I assume, if Brother really has a free SANE scanner driver, they would know how to contact the SANE maintainers or the Linux distributors so that their free driver is included into SANE and/or into the Linux distributions so that their users get the nice "it-works-out-of-the-box" experience ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex
