Hi Oliver, Oliver Jan Krylow writes:
> My apologies, I overlooked the language in my haste. > > Am I understanding this correctly, the whole driver is under some kind > of proprietary license, except for some GPL'd glue code between SANE > and some magic binary blob? That and the fact that their backend start two child processes (one of which is the "magic" binary blob) with which it communicates. > I don't know if this violates GPL but I have a strong urge to return > the product and get my money back... :) I have currently no reason to believe it does. If you are concerned about the need to use a non-free, 32-bit BLOB to use your scanner, then returning it is one of your options. By the looks of it, it won't make a decent doorstop ;-) A paperweight? Maybe. You might add letting Canon know if you return it and tell them why. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
