[sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends?

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: http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreement/agreement.cgi?dlfile=http://solutions.brother.

[sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends?

Mark Farnell 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=

[sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends?

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 wrote: > Mark Farnell wrote: > > Hi, > >> Brother has already lic

[sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends?

Mark Farnell 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 to sane-backends, so...

[sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends?

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:15:23 +0200 Julien BLACHE 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 practice, an entity inter

[sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends?

Alessandro Zummo wrote: > btw, which software is actually using the exception? I believe Vuescan does, for parts of sanei. JB. -- Julien BLACHE GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169

[sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends?

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 BLACHE wrote: > Mark Farnell wrote

[sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends?

Mark Farnell 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. -- Julien BLACHE

[sane-devel] Brother has already provided source code for brother scanner backends, should they go to sane-backends?

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Mark Farnell 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 sane-backend? > they are s

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 4490 gives "sane_start: Invalid argument"

Le Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:21:03 -0400, Bob Paddock a ?crit : > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:13 PM, m. allan noah > wrote: > > 1. epson backend is deprecated. use epson2 instead. (epson should > > have been disabled in dll.conf) > > > 2. neither epson nor epson2 support the 4490. It uses some unknown >

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 4490 gives "sane_start: Invalid argument"

> I also own a 4490 Photo. > I was running Gentoo 64bit on my workstation some times ago, but the > epkowa backend was not provided for 64bit arch (this is not the case > anymore, but I'm lazy, so I didn't change my config). The way I've > found to use the scanner with Gentoo 64 was connecting the

[sane-devel] Epson PX700W again

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