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 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. > > -- > Julien BLACHE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <http://www.jblache.org> > <jb at jblache.org> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169 >
