[sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends?

[Mark Farnell]

Excuse me....... Can you have a good look AGAIN at the sources?

Both packages contain a good amount of C codes under
brscan/backend_src   lib and sanei

Are these code sufficient for us to build a backend for sane-backend?

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Julien BLACHE<jb at jblache.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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