Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

James A. Robinson writes: > I appreciate your contacting them about the discrepancy. We'll see what > they say (as you indicate, my own suspicion is that they will say nothing). > > BTW, regarding making sure to read the EULA, I assume you noticed that you > can't actually get to the point

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

I appreciate your contacting them about the discrepancy. We'll see what they say (as you indicate, my own suspicion is that they will say nothing). BTW, regarding making sure to read the EULA, I assume you noticed that you can't actually get to the point where you see what architecture are

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi Allan, > > I just dashed off a rather long explation to James and the list. > > m. allan noah writes: > >> I personally am of the opinion that Brother is in violation of our >> license. However, our license is

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

Hi Allan, I just dashed off a rather long explation to James and the list. m. allan noah writes: > I personally am of the opinion that Brother is in violation of our > license. However, our license is not strictly GPL, and the differences > were clearly not written by a lawyer. You could argue

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

Hi, James A. Robinson writes: > I was wondering whether or not any of the developers here know the > story behind the Brother scanner drivers? They offer a Debian > package that identifies itself as GPL, and that claims it is based > on sane-backends.When I asked them about getting ahold

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

I personally am of the opinion that Brother is in violation of our license. However, our license is not strictly GPL, and the differences were clearly not written by a lawyer. You could argue that we give some space for a company to steal our work, and keep it from their users. I vote with my

[sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

I was wondering whether or not any of the developers here know the story behind the Brother scanner drivers? They offer a Debian package that identifies itself as GPL, and that claims it is based on sane-backends.When I asked them about getting ahold the source (I want to port it to ARM), I