https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463474 Cyril Hrubis changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |chrubis@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |aj@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463474 User receive-spam@yandex.ru added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463474#c4 --- Comment #4 from Arseniy Lartsev 2009-01-10 06:55:26 MST ---

Note that there are GPLv2 modules on that page. We have no problem with these.

But all hardware-related operations are implemented in proprietary libraries. GPL'd modules rely on these libraries and cannot do anything without them. I am looking for an easy way to install proprietary libraries. Downloading packages from Australian site is not an easy way because they have incorrect dependencies and won't install without --nodeps, and also because SANE backend just does not work without recompilation. And even if these packages were valid, installation from a repository is much easier anyway. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.