Hi Oliver, Oliver Jan Krylow writes:
> http://www.canon.de/support/consumer_products/products/scanners/others/imageformula_p-208ii.aspx?type=drivers&language=&os=#disclaimer While I do understand a fair bit of German, I wouldn't want to agree to any license agreement written in it ;-) Here's a link that gives an English version for the 32-bit Linux driver. There is no 64-bit driver. http://www.canon.co.uk/support/consumer_products/products/scanners/others/imageformula_p-208ii.aspx?type=drivers&language=EN&os=Linux%20%2832-bit%29 Everyone should read the whole license themselves, but it has: You are not permitted to: (1) [...] convey, transfer, copy, modify, adapt, merge, translate, convert to another programming language, reverse-engineer, decompile, modify, alter, disassemble or create derivative works based on the whole or any part of the Software [...]; (2) reproduce or deal in the Software or any part thereof, or allow any third party to reproduce or deal in the Software or any part thereof, in any way, except as expressly permitted by this Agreement [...]. That looks extremely bleak. But, near the end, it also says: Other license terms: When you install the software you may be required to accept another end user license agreement which corresponds to the specific software you are installing. [...] In the event of any contradiction or inconsistency between the terms of such end user license agreement and these license terms, in respect of the software you are installing, the terms of such end user license agreement shall prevail. So I decided to have a look. The source tarball and debian package in the zip archive (didn't look at the rpm but assume it to be the same) contain a LICENSE-p208II-1.00E.txt file that says, amongst a pile of other things you really should read yourself: 1.GRANT OF LICENSE [...] You may modify the Software only for your own use and reverse engineer the same for debugging such modifications. [...] 2.RESTRICTIONS Except as expressly granted or permitted herein, you shall not use, assign, sublicense, sell, rent, lease, loan, convey or transfer to any third party the Software. [...] IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THE USE OF FREE SOFTWARE COMPONENTS BEING LICENSED UNDER GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE This product "Canon ImageFOMULA Scanner Driver for Linux vx.xx" ("Product") of Canon Electronics Inc. ("Canon") contains the free software components as listed in Schedule 2 of Exhibit attached hereto, and which are licensed under GNU General Public License version 2 published by the Free Software Foundation ("GPL"). Such free software components are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of GPL. [...] Schedule 2 canondr_com_usb.1.1.0 libsane-canondr.so.1.0.0 canondr.conf OK, so those parts are GPL. Let's have a look then. I only took a quick look but libsane-canondr.so.1.0.0 basically just gets the list of supported options from a configuration file and uses SANE's network protocol to "outsource" all of to a stripped binary by the name of canondr_backendp208II. This binary is execl()d from libsane-canondr.so.1.0.0, just as the canondr_com_usb.1.1.0 USB communication utility. canondr_backendp208II is handed file descriptors that enable it to use canondr_com_usb.1.1.0. Source code for libsane-canondr.so.1.0.0 as canondr_com_usb.1.1.0 does not contain anything that might be of interest. Nothing useful for the SANE project but hope this helps anyway, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
