[Printing-architecture] ippusbd license

[Daniel Dressler]

Hello Everyone

I'm worried we're having a "color of the bikeshed" discussion.

We've hit many major trade offs to strong copyleft. Please understand
I think the GPLv3 best fulfils my intentions.

If someone needs a disclaimer or exception to test against ippusbxd
please contact me.

Daniel

PS: I also hope Android and ChromeOS will have IPP over USB support.
If anyone is interested in that or knows anything about it please do
contact me.

2014-06-25 19:59 GMT-06:00 Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com>:
> Daniel,
>
> On Jun 25, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Daniel Dressler <danieru.dressler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you Ira, and thank you for the support you have given me and
>> ippusbxd in the past.
>>
>> Do you know of any printer vendors or OS interested in using ippusbxd?
>> I must admit I only expected ippusbxd to be used by the open source
>> distributions. I am not sure what changes need to be made to reuse
>> ippusbxd from the printer side.
>
> You wouldn't use it on the printer side, but you *would* use it to test your printer implementation.
>
>> Of the OSes which avoid GPLv3: Android, Chromeos, MacOSX, Windows. I
>> did not expect any of them to adopt ippusbxd. MacOSX alone has Michael
>> Sweet himself working on their ippusbd.
>
> I can see Android and ChromeOS supporting IPP USB.
>
> And don't forget the BSD-derived operating systems.  And Solaris.
>
>> I would a company prevent their developers from testing against
>> ippusbxd? Under the GPLv3 if they download a compiled binary through a
>> linux distrobution, or an exe from a website, they have no
>> obligations. They only need to worry if desire to redistribute the
>> source or binary.
>
> I can only state that Apple legal is leery of even allowing employees to run GPL3 code - while the GPL3 isn't a typical EULA, the output of a GPL3 program or library can also fall under the GPL3 terms - some GNU software has disclaimers/exceptions for output, but not all.
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
>