https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=370443
User jsmeix@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=370443#c1
Johannes Meixner changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #1 from Johannes Meixner 2008-03-14 03:19:42 MST ---
As far as I know their drivers are non-free software.
Usually it needs a proprietary library.
The rest of their software is free, but without their
proprietary library it does not work so that this
makes the whole driver non-free software.
Also have a lok at the primary source of information
regarding printer drivers:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting
in particular see
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/LinuxSupportByPrint...
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Useless
Brother MFC Devices
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and
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/BrotherFAQ#How_well...
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Brother also makes a line of multifunction devices
(fax/copier/scanner/printers) which do not work well
or at all. Standard documentation is not posted on
the Brother website; developers have reported that
Brother is not willing to provide unencumbered MFC
programming information.
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This means that when you buy a Brother MFC device,
you are bound to their driver, how they provide it,
and how they support it.
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