Re: [hpoj-devel] new I/O driver coming soon (second try)

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Hi, Joe.

Joe Piolunek wrote:
> I didn't see support for officejets mentioned in hpinkjet web pages. Will 
> they be supported by the new inkjet drivers?
I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.  At the very least, the DeskJet 895C
driver should work with the OfficeJet R and T series, and the DeskJet 970C
driver should work with the OfficeJet G and K series.  I'm guessing that the
DeskJet 600-series driver should work with the OfficeJet [567]00 series, but
I don't know for sure at the moment.

> That might be more acceptable to independant contributors (if any), but each 
> would have his own opinion. Since only a few people have contributed to the 
> project so far, the IP 'transfer' plan may not even need to be applied for 
> lack (or need) of independant contributions. If so, it would make the 
> ownership issue less relevant, as long as the code remains GPL'd.
After thinking about it some more I came to pretty much the same conclusion.
As long as I can sufficiently maintain the code there won't be any need to
accept changes to the leveraged MLC/1284.4 code (which is the only problem
area).  If that ever changes in any way, then the "problem" probably goes
away.  Others may choose to fork their own GPL projects that incorporate
that code, possibly with their own changes, but that's OK as long as they
comply with the GPL.

So I won't worry any more about this issue for now, and instead will
concentrate on finishing the remaining cleanups before checking in the new
code.  :-)

David