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Brother retains any and all copyrights to the Software. In no case this Agreement shall be construed to assign or otherwise transfer from Brother to User any copyrights or other intellectual property rights to whole or any part of the Software.

Brother grants User a non-exclusive license: to reproduce and/or distribute (via Internet or in any other manner) the Software. Further, Brother grants User a non-exclusive license to modify, alter, translate or otherwise prepare derivative works of the Software and to reproduce and distribute (via Internet or in any other manner) such modification, alteration, translation or other derivative works for any purpose.

Source: EULA on downloading the LPR printer drivers on Brother website

This doesn't sound like an unfree license to me, but IANAL.

The CUPS filter includes a GPLv2 header as well as a Copying file is included which contains the GPLv2 license.

Some of the EULAs are even «please acknowledge you have read GPL and understood lack of guarantees for this software»

These are all scripts/PPDs so the the question of source/binary is moot, right?

@Enzime @7c6f434c The packages contain x86 binaries without corresponding source code, and are therefore not free software.

There are two different driver packages for these printer models:

• the CUPS wrapper drivers are GPL according to the Brother website.
• the unfree LPR drivers (separate packages) are unfree and classified as such in nixpkgs

So the licenses on the "cupswrapper" packages are correct and should not be changed.

@xeji Fixed. The patch now only changes the licence of the LPR driver.

Seems sensible.