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On 30/09/11 19:44, Simon Waters wrote:
My apologies - All I can say is that last time I looked closely that wasn’t open sourced - I've been deleteing it from my Ubuntu machines thinking it crept over like mono or something! But then I would only use an HP printer as a (front) doorstop anyway (Think moai)On 30/09/11 09:18, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, tom wrote:On 29/09/11 17:57, Simon Robert -Cottage wrote:Just to ask, what is the problem with hplip?Its not open-source is one! HP are amazingly expensive and you will almost certainly find that using HP you will have 'empty' cartridges that contain a LOT of ink.hplip is supplied as source code, although I didn't check the licensing.http://hplipopensource.com/node/296 "HPLIP is free, open source software, distributed under the following open source licenses: GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 MIT license BSD license"It's supplied with Debian, although I didn't check to see if it's in the standard or non-free sections.Main pool, utils - so free as in "Debian Free Software Guidelines"
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