https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463474
User cfarrell@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463474#c2
--- Comment #2 from Ciaran Farrell 2009-01-09 14:18:13 MST ---
The license agreement for the proprietary modules is written a bit strangely:
1. GRANT OF LICENSE
Canon grants you a personal, limited and non-exclusive license to use ("use" as
used herein shall mean storing, loading, installing, accessing, executing or
displaying), have used, copy, have copied, distribute and permit third parties
to use and copy the Software solely for use with Canon's scanner products and
Inkjet MFP products. You may modify the Software only for your own use and
reverse engineer the same for debugging such modifications. You shall
distribute the Software to any third party under the same terms and conditions
as contained herein.
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.
Thus, the rights (among others, to copy and distribute) granted in section 1
are retracted in section 2 as section 2 clarifies that exercise of the rights
in section 1 are subject to "use with Canon's scanner products...". Thus, as
Novell does not "use" the software in this manner (Novell does not distribute
Canon hardware), the rights are "retracted" in section 2.
Therefore, I recommend that we do not distribute such software. Note that there
are GPLv2 modules on that page. We have no problem with these.
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