Once upon a time Saturday 13 October 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 13.10.2007 19:26, Marko Anastasov wrote: > > Today I ran the Ubuntu Gutsy RC LiveCD, and I was surprised > > to find my HP LaserJet 1022 working flawlessly, for the first > > on any GNU/Linux distro. This is because I never found a driver > > for this model, and none of the others (ie, for other models) > > managed to work well. I quickly opened system-config-printer, > > and saw that the printer has been configured to run with the > > driver named "HP... Foomatic/foo2zjs". I googled a bit and > > noticed that a Fedora package being mentioned as available in > > Livna. I downloaded the tarball from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ > > and saw that driver is licensed under the GPL. > > > > I'm curious why is this driver not provided by Fedora? > > Because the driver is not free software or patent encumbered (can't > remember which of the two reasons applies). That's why it's in livna and > soon rpmfusion. it uses a patented protocol to talk to the printer. The writer of the software also makes noise on his website not to use any pre-packaged versions of the driver. but to only use it downloaded and built by hand from his website. Dennis -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
