On Mon 05 Oct 2015 at 11:37:05 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Hi there,
Hello Nik, > after receiving the shocking news that my employer got a replacement printer > that is not yet supported by Debian, I had a look at what options there are. > > The printer is a Brother HL-L8250CDN and Brother is known to have excellent > Linux support (apart from delivering very low-standard packages for Debian). > > Getting the printer to work is a matter of downloading a .deb file and > installing it. > > However, I had a deeper look into this pckage, and other driver packages, and > found them containing two things: a PPD file and a filter, the latter written > in POSIX shell, and both being licensed under GPL version 2 or newer. > > While the downloads on teh Brother website carry hints on the drivers being > proprietary, the seperate files in the packages tell a different story and > are > clearly tagged with a DFSG-compatible license. > > Getting all those drivers into Debian would now be a great thing. I thought > about it and found several options: > > a) get them added to OpenPrinting's foomatic DB > b) get them added to the brlaser package > c) create a new package > > I did not find any useful information on how to contribute to a), which would > be my preferred solution. > > So, dear Printign Team, would you be so kind as to give me a hint on how to > proceed? You may want to look at #635157 to get an idea of how easy/difficult it might be to package this software for Debian. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635157 Regards, Brian.
