On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 01:14 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> For Tim: have you considered doing something similar to RPMFusion akmod,
> i.e. modifying hp-setup/hp-plugin to build an appropriate package
> on-the-fly? Also, the binary plugins get installed under /usr/share/hplip,
> which is against the packaging guidelines (binaries should go in /usr/lib
> or /usr/lib64, depending on the arch).

I haven't considered that, no.

> For Tim and legal folks: has anyone tried asking HP to open-source the
> plugins and the firmware or at least changing the license for the plugins
> and the firmwares to one allowing redistribution? The latter would make
> the firmwares acceptable for Fedora and the plugins acceptable for
> RPMFusion.

HP won't open-source them unfortunately.  I don't know whether they will
change the license to allow for redistribution.

Tim.
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