[Glastonbury] My CUPS floweth not ...

[Damon Chaplin]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 19:19, Kelvin McNulty wrote:
> On Thursday 11 November 2004 18:14, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:55:46PM +0000, tim hall wrote:
> > > Thanks for all the responses. Getting closer ...
> ...
> >
> > If cups is installed - just go to localhost port 631 -
> > http://localhost:631 and you should get a printer admin page.  Login as
> > root and put in your root password.
> 
> tried that myself as I have CUPS running under SuSE 8.1 which I did find to be 
> quite easy to install... and it came up straightaway and said Copyright 
> 1993-2002 Easy Software Products - so is NOT open source... it is, after all, 
> the Common UNIX Printing System...

CUPS is GPL/LGPL, so it is free software. But they also sell "ESP Print
Pro" which isn't free software. See http://www.cups.org/
Apple also licensed CUPS for Mac OS/X, by the way.

Damon