Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)
i received the following message from the upstream author of foo2zjs.
it is his belief that much of the package should be non-free. see below.
Rick Richardson wrote:
> It is not the firmware only. It is also ICC/ICM Color Correction files.
> And PATENTS. Patents by IBM and ATT in the USA and others...
> This should be non-free!!!!!
> -Rick
> From the COPYING file:
> Copyright HP...
> sihp1000.img (2001)
> sihp1005.img (2002)
> sihp1018.img (2005)
> sihp1020.img (2005)
> hpclj2600n-0.icm (2003) 3700
> Copyright Konica Minolta...
> CPWL12W.icm (1998)
> CPWL24W.icm (1998)
> CPWL6W.icm (1998)
> DL2200RGB.icm (1999)
> DL2312.icm (2001)
> DL2324.icm (2001)
> km2430_0.icm (2003)
> km2430_1.icm (2003)
> km2430_2.icm (2003)
> km2530_0.icm (2003)
> km2530_1.icm (2003)
> km2530_2.icm (2003)
> Copyright Rick Richardson. All Rights Reserved.
> hpclj2600n-1.icm (2006)
> samclp300-0.icm (2007)
> km2530-jconner-d50.icm (2007)
> Copyright Samsung...
> CLP-300*cms* (2006)
> CLP-600*cms* (2006)
> Copyright Lexmark...
> lexRPCA200.icm (2006)
> PATENTS
> It is possible that certain products which can be built using the jbig
> software module might form inventions protected by patent rights in
> some countries (e.g., by patents about arithmetic coding algorithms
> owned by IBM and AT&T in the USA). Provision of this software by the
> author does NOT include any licences for any patents. In those
> countries where a patent licence is required for certain applications
> of this software module, you will have to obtain such a licence
> yourself.
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