| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:35:42 -0400 | | Since Brother has released the brscan, brscan2 and brscan3 drivers under | the GPL ( | http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_src.html#srccd_s), | what is the procedure for getting these included in sane?
I don't see a reply to your message. Here's a reply to a similar message from some years ago. Summary: Brother has not made a sufficiently complete source code release. And its licensing is not useful either. Brother makes it clear that this isn't an accident. From: Julien BLACHE <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:15:23 +0200 Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends? Mark Farnell <mark.farnell at gmail.com> wrote: Hi, > Brother has already licensed their brother sane backend code to GPL, > the backends are known as brscan1, brscan2 and brscan3: GPL isn't enough, we need GPL + SANE exception. > brscan and brscan2 code: > > http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreement/agreement.cgi?dlfile=http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/rpmfiles/sane_source/brscan-src-0.2.4.tar.gz&lang=English_source What a joke. This license agreement is not the GPL, in case you hadn't noticed. The tarball contains binary-only crap that's supposed to be released under the LGPL, except releasing only the final shared library doesn't even begin to satisfy the LGPL. That's a FAIL. > brscan3 code: > > http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreement/agreement.cgi?dlfile=http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/dlf/brscan3-src-0.2.6-1.tar.gz&lang=English_gpl The situation is exactly the same for this one, except the online license agreement is the GPL. Misleading at best. FAIL, too. > Would we be able to incorporate these backends into sane-backends? Obviously not. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
