Whenever requesting new package additions to Ubuntu,, please follow these
guidelines:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages
I' ll try to modify the bug report to make it compliant to those
guidelines.
This package should still make it at least into multiverse, although
IANAL (I a
** Changed in: sane-backends-extras (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/72321
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If your scanner is connected via USB, then you have to run "lsusb". This
lists all your USB devices. Search for an entry which looks like your
scanner. This, for example, is my scanner:
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 04f9:0184 Brother Industries, Ltd DCP-7025
Printer
The 4-digit numbers after "ID" are th
> Thomas : how do you find what udev rules to use with your scanner? I
may be able to run xsane with user permissions if I can at least get
that all figured out..
I don't really remember, I did this long ago. I know it involved a bit
of googling, though.
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Brother put forth the effort they thought they needed to to get their
hardware working under linux based operating systems. If we're going to
disregard said effort, we owe them an explanation and a clear request as
to what more we need from them. It seems they're rather responsive. :)
As an end
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Even if the driver is not included because of licensing issues, you can
at least make it easier to manually install the driver by adding the
proper udev rules. For me, this is
# Brother DCP-115
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="018c", MODE="664", GROUP="scanner"
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Just received another email from the japanese brother guys.
Because of my request, they changed the license agreement.
http://www.brother.com/cgi-
bin/agreement/agreement.cgi?dlfile=http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/rpmfiles/sane_debian/brscan2-0.2.1-0.i386.deb&lang=English_s
I just mailed to Brother and asked them for a statment concerning the
license situation - hope to here from them soon.
The questionable paragraph:
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Brother grants User a non-exclusive license: to reproduce and distribute (via
Internet or in any other manner) the Software. User shall not have
Apparently these drivers have licensing problems that prevent them from
being included in sane and probably ubuntu's sane-backends packages as
well. See http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-
devel/2005-December/015707.html for details.
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