[Foomatic] Using usb IDs for autodetection

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Thu Apr 8 16:16:05 PDT 2004


Grant Taylor wrote:
>>Does using the GCC force the compile results becoming GPL? No.
>>
>>To be sure, I asked Mike (Sweet) the day it was released the same
>>question and he confirmed that the PPD being compiled with the PPD
>>compiler will not be forced to be GPL'd.
> 
> 
> Oh, no, that's not the concern.  It's a question of the libraries to
> be used by the actual driver code; if these are GPL, then the driver
> code must be, too.
> 
> This would of course be a good thing from a customer viewpoint, but
> vendors don't operate exclusively for the benefit of their
> customers...
> 

Is the DDK really GPL-only? Are there no LGPL parts? or is it perhaps 
even dual-licensed, like CUPS? If it would be dual-licensed, vendors, 
who want to keep their drivers closed-source, have to buy a commercial 
license for the DDK.

    Till




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