Re: [Printing-architecture] CUPS 3.x: How we make it converting job data formats?
Till Kamppeter <[email protected]>
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On 07/05/2022 16:45, Michael Sweet wrote:
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>> Does the GPL2 not require them to then publish the source code of the combined software?
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> Only if the software is linked together as a single executable.
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OK, if it is used only by a filter executable, a piece of code of CUPS
or cups-filters which is free software anyway it is no problem. The
caller, like printer firmware, can be closed-source.
>> So I will continue supporting both Poppler and Ghostscript. Poppler as the choice for embedded/IoT and Ghostscript as the choice for the Linux distributions.
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> Honestly, using it in a Linux distribution has the same risks since you are deploying cloud services (SaaS, etc.) using those distributions. But that's far outside the scope of this group here and as long as it is possible to build without Ghostscript I am happy.
OK, we will offer both options. It is not our responsibility when the
distros accept including Ghostscript, letting the printing stack use
Ghostscript, and then use the distro for cloud services (and up to now
no one complains about it). I hope it is at least no AGPL violation to
use Ghostscript on a regular real-iron computer due to its closed-source
BIOS.
Till