On Mon 19 Mar 2012 at 03:17:57 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > This means a goal would be to get a driver included in a simple, free, > and distro-neutral collection such as openprinting-ppds and listed at > <http://www.openprinting.org/drivers>. > > Michal, does the HL-2130 work as a generic postscript printer? (I am > guessing it does, based on a quick glance at the ppd and since the > HL-2140 can act as one.) > > Brother's PPD for this model is licensed under the GPL. Their driver > package also includes some binary-only components to configure the > printer, unfortunately without an explicit license that would even > allow us to distribute it, so probably any open source driver is going > to lack some functionality in the short term. > > The free part of the driver is not listed at > <http://www.openprinting.org/driver/Postscript-Brother/> as having > been incorporated into openprinting-ppds yet. Reassigning to the > foomatic-db package to pursue that. > > Thanks for some useful pointers.
JFTR and to keep the history of this issue relatively up-to-date: https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2016/12/msg00078.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2016/12/msg00082.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2016/12/msg00089.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/701856 Regards, -- Brian.