Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> writes: > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >>> I do have more than a few users who rely on the proprietary crap for >>> whatever good or bad reason. That's why I provided epkowa in the first >>> place. >> >> you ship the free parts so that debian users have an easy way to >> discard their freedom with proprietary code? frankly, i am a little >> shocked....
Be shocked more, libsane-extras is DFSG-free! It just like firefox supporting Adobe's non-free flash plugin. No 64bit version over at Adobe there either :-( > Well, without the non-free bits it provides better support for some > scanner, and supports devices no other backend supports :) All devices not supported by other backends require a non-free plugin. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS Corporation FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/