Apparently these drivers have licensing problems that prevent them from being included in sane and probably ubuntu's sane-backends packages as well. See http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane- devel/2005-December/015707.html for details.
-- Include Brother scanner drivers (brother2, brother) https://launchpad.net/bugs/72321 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
