Other guys are known to work on Brother™ drivers (it could be good to contact them to work together):
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brother_drivers by winterheart;
No many information, the guy seems to have corrected or cleaned some code of official Brother™ driver. -
install-brother-printer-driver by ozancaglayan;
This tool is a gui that generate a list of model printers and allow the user to download and install.rpmpackaged drivers, it’s a tool designed for the Pardus distribution. This tool is broken since Brother™ had deleted usefull pages in April 2014. This code is covered by the GPLv2 license. -
brother/install.sh by demonipunch (in french);
This script allow Ubuntu users to select, download and install a driver with a gui. The tool comes with lists of models and packages. There is another page (in french) on the Ubuntu-fr community web site. This code is covered by the GPLv2 license. -
Ubuntu packages;
Who done those packages? -
- and others…
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linux-brprinter-installer [.gz] by Brother™;
This tool written by Brother™ checks connected devices and download drivers, despite its 2500 lines, there is no many usefull informations in it.