Bug#451502: [Bug 283719] [NEW] JBIG-KIT 1.6 -- Markus Kuhn - GPL source missing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/283719
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Subject: Bug#451502: hplip is NON-FREE as of 2.7.10
Date: Sunday 18 November 2007
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
To: Rick Richardson <rick.richardson@comcast.net>
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Rick Richardson wrote:
> It looks like this is a violation of GPL -- no source.
Something to ask HPLIP upstream about, then.
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Henrique Holschuh
-------------------------------------------------------From: Rick Richardson <rick.richardson@comcast.net>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>, 451502@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#451502: hplip is NON-FREE as of 2.7.10
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:13:02 -0600
$ pwd
/usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins
$ ll
total 136
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root rick 42 Nov 15 13:09 lj.so -> /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/lj-x86_64.so
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root rick 56851 Sep 19 13:49 lj-x86_32.so
-r--r--r-- 1 root rick 70337 Sep 19 13:49 lj-x86_64.so
$ strings * | grep JBIG
JBIG-KIT 1.6 -- Markus Kuhn -- $Id: jbig.c,v 1.1 2007/08/23 16:44:50 raghothamac Exp
It looks like this is a violation of GPL -- no source.
/*
* Portable Free JBIG image compression library
*
* Markus Kuhn -- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/
*
* Id: jbig.c,v 1.22 2004-06-11 15:17:06+01 mgk25 Exp $
* $Id: jbig.c,v 1.4 2004/06/12 02:33:05 rick Exp $
*
* This module implements a portable standard C encoder and decoder
* using the JBIG lossless bi-level image compression algorithm as
* specified in International Standard ISO 11544:1993 or equivalently
* as specified in ITU-T Recommendation T.82. See the file jbig.doc
* for usage instructions and application examples.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
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