On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:17:08AM -0700, Patrick Powell wrote:
I have been considering putting in the ability to use PPD files. However, I once again come up with the copyright problem.
Question: is anybody, anywhere, setting up an archive for PPD files that allows unhidered access to them? No copyright, redistribution, etc., problems?
The PPD files generated by the folks at www.linuxprinting.org are released under the GPL. Included at the top of every PPD file, they put:
*% For information on using this, and to obtain the required backend *% script, consult http://www.linuxprinting.org/ *% *% This file is published under the GNU General Public License *% *% PPD-O-MATIC (3.0.0 or newer) generated this PPD file.
I guess it depends on what you mean by 'unhindered'. However, since ifhp is under a dual license (GPL and Artistic), I'm going to guess that having PPD files released under the GPL might be sufficient for you. :)
Here you could really extract data and add it to LPRng/IFHP and/or publish a modified PPD file both stand-alone or together with LPRng/IFHP.
But please do not make a duplicate of the Foomatic database (in another format) part of ifhp. This will always be outdated, as we continuously add new data to the Foomatic database. Any integration of Foomatic with ifhp is welcome, to give both the wide printer/driver support of Foomatic and the bi-di features of ifhp to the LPRng user.
Till
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