Brother has already licensed their brother sane backend code to GPL,
the backends are known as brscan1, brscan2 and brscan3:
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_src.html
brscan and brscan2 code:
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:
So should sane talk to Brother about the requirements for a genuine
GPL license and ask them to release all the source code? We should
tell them the we need GPL + SANE exception.
Mark
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Julien BLACHEjb at jblache.org wrote:
Mark Farnell mark.farnell at gmail.com
Mark Farnell mark.farnell at gmail.com wrote:
So should sane talk to Brother about the requirements for a genuine
GPL license and ask them to release all the source code? We should
tell them the we need GPL + SANE exception.
The code would probably need a rewrite anyway before we can add it
On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:15:23 +0200
Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote:
GPL isn't enough, we need GPL + SANE exception.
LICENSE says:
Note that not all of the backends apply the exception and that some have
additional licensing constraints.
so GPL only should be fine.
In
Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it wrote:
btw, which software is actually using the exception?
I believe Vuescan does, for parts of sanei.
JB.
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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 BLACHEjb at jblache.org wrote:
Mark Farnell mark.farnell at gmail.com wrote:
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?
No.
JB.
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jb
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Mark Farnellmark.farnell at gmail.com wrote:
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
