On 01/04/2017 01:57 PM, Brian wrote:
On Wed 04 Jan 2017 at 13:19:43 -0500, Jape Person wrote:On 01/04/2017 11:27 AM, Brian wrote:Some manufacturers, HP and Epson, for example, integrate their scanner software and co-operate with SANE developers; Brother don't seem to, although they do have drivers for some scanners which claim to be under the GPL. No source code though.Yeah, what's up with that? Don't the various GPL versions require the source code to be made available if you're going to alter the software and re-distribute it?The best I can do here is http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2016-September/034722.html
Well, ain't that just frustratin'? And pretty much as expected.I guess I'll write, too. Not that my voice will mean much. But every grain of sand contributes to the beach.
Thank you for that link. That thread provides some useful background from the SANE side.
JP