[Sussex] GPL and copyright

[Paul Tansom]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 08:01 +0100, Colin Tuckley wrote:
> Paul Tansom wrote:
> 
> > From the Debian point of view it is
> > a case of trundling off to linuxprinting.org to get suitable driver
> > files.
> 
> No, you just need:
> 
> Package: foomatic-filters-ppds
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: extra
> Section: text
> Installed-Size: 12472
> Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <lawrencc at debian.org>
> Architecture: all
> Version: 20050430-1
> Replaces: cupsomatic-ppd (<< 20030507)
> Depends: foomatic-db-engine
> Recommends: cupsys
> Suggests: foomatic-db-hpijs, foomatic-db-gimp-print, foo2zjs
> Conflicts: cupsomatic-ppd (<< 20030507), hpijs (<< 2)
> Description: linuxprinting.org printer support - prebuilt PPD files
>  Foomatic is a printer database designed to make it easier to set up
>  common printers for use with Debian (and other operating systems).
>  It provides the "glue" between a print spooler (like CUPS or lpr) and
>  your actual printer, by telling your computer how to process files
>  sent to the printer.
>  .
>  This package provides Adobe-compliant PPD files for *every single
>  printer* supported by Foomatic.  Unless you want to be able to select
>  your printer from the web interface of CUPS or PPR, you almost
>  certainly don't want this package.  Instead, you can use the
>  "foomatic-configure" script in foomatic-db-engine, the "foomatic-gui"
>  package, or the web interface for getting a particular PPD file at
>  http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi

Interesting, when I last played with that - when I finally got around to
getting printing working on my Linux box (I printed so rarely back then,
and using OOo was lazy and just loaded up in Windows on the odd occasion
I needed to!) I looked at that, and even installed it - unfortunately I
couldn't find out what it did or how to use it. This time I installed it
and found a whole raft of new printers listed in CUPS - before I
reinstalled I had about 5 I think. No idea what went wrong last time,
I'm afraid I gave up trying to find a page describing what to do with
foomatic post install and downloaded the .ppd file manually and copied
it to the appropriate directory! It'll be interesting to see how the
output compares.

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