From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=apple.com; s=mailout2048s; c=relaxed/simple; q=dns/txt; i=@apple.com; t=1403747997; x=2267661597; h=From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-id:To:Cc:MIME-version:Content-type: Content-transfer-encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:In-reply-to:References:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=KEDYx/r3SpclYTpTEU3TlryYO7b9EOImo1TYZxDoGFA=; b=UuWzx+3rbPeBOJACWk7B5pwJkQBVAiY9iqAlqxbHlb5tIxd5BLrsFNsGsUMiAF9G ze2htsDtMu3kq5GNg0+S6JMAfRHFarA6QCbMSJEnITg3Nttd6DKaL1Hdwdkm+Blp VGiqCWrcMNMeBaGhStj5sqqsmr9e259HnHJ/6GWwg2m/eLfDwu/aOOwGBAFoU39U zG7j1BhwpauUHXww4B8xufZ4PFXAhpZJEsaJ3v7Pz65ZYTTGUpaLHah/sQGlnemc 8J8ev3bAmAv3rOfpwbJbG0tq2zdDhILK848nTw3CMkqcFR0dYCCwDGFdF8tHKBBI x5liIkKiiFEO2KOVfqjQOA==; MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII From: Michael Sweet In-reply-to: Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:59:54 -0400 Message-id: References: <53A9C50D.4000306@gmail.com> <53A9D7F0.1010909@gmail.com> <7231748A-31C3-4C70-9C91-19437661D464@apple.com> <53AADC12.50705@gmail.com> <94101C68-DC20-420E-8C93-AAC754638926@apple.com> Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] ippusbd license List-Id: Printing architecture under linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Daniel Dressler Cc: "printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org" , Till Kamppeter Daniel, On Jun 25, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Daniel Dressler 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