Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Samsung ML-1630W for macOS

[Benjamin V. <be...@bv...>]

Thanks for your reply! I am using Apple hardware from 2010 and 2011 and I am not planning to buy anything new. I bought my first Macbook in 2006 when I had the view that Apple was doing everything differently from Microsoft. Since then I also used Lubuntu a lot. I even put it on my Apple computers because I was fed up with Apple becoming so differently. I used OS X Mavericks until recently, which is already 7 years old. I just updated it because a LOT of applications did not support it any more. 

So, I can perfectly understand your dislike of the current Apple environment but I assure you it won't be Apple's benefits but the benefits of users that like to use older stuff (like the printer, which is actually not THAT old).

In my case I was not even sure if Gutenprint was something people would be able to use (because of the "old" website). I just discovered it from the other guy's link I sent in my first mail. 

If you do maintain it then people should USE it! 

Thanks again for your efforts! 
Ben



> Am 25.09.2019 um 15:22 schrieb Solomon Peachy <pi...@sh...>:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 08:28:57AM -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> SpliX is licensed under the GPL, but v2 only, which would be
>> problematic for Gutenprint since we license under GPLv2+.  A
> 
> I wonder if it might be feasible to relicense it as GPLv2+, especially 
> as CUPS itself is no longer GPL.
> 
>> There would also be the issue of merging the very different code
>> bases.
> 
> The core QPDL stuff is pretty simple, so once we toss the stuff that 
> gutenprint already provides (CUPS+PPD integration, etc) there wouldn't 
> be that much left to integrate.  Indeed, based on the docs I've seen, it 
> wouldn't even be that difficult to reimplement it.
> 
> On the other hand, when the main beneficiary is MacOS, my personal 
> motivation to reinvent the wheel goes way down...
> 
> - Solomon
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