Hi Narcis,
Le dimanche, 2 octobre 2016, 14.03:24 h CEST Narcis Garcia a écrit :
> hplip packages in main repository are a fork of HPLIP by HewlettPackard
> without proprietary firmware that HP includes in their packages.
The HPLIP packages don't provide the proprietary firmwares directly either in
their source tarball (e.g. https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/
3.16.9/hplip-3.16.9.tar.gz) and that's what the Debian packages use as source
package.
> There are more and more HP multifunction printer models that require
> proprietary firmware to be loaded by the driver, and hplip"opensource"
> catalog says that user needs a newer HPLIP version than your OS
> repositories provide; but the truth is that user must download HPLIP
> from HP official website and run their particular intaller.
I don't think that's true for basic functions (printing locally & over the
network). Granted, the binary plugin is often needed for network scanning, and
that sucks…
Can you point to a specific printer that would need the binary plugin for
_printing_ ?
> I don't know if HP is not providing complete HPLIP software to OS
> packagers, or OS packagers are discarding proprietary components.
> I suppose that complete hplip Debian packages should go to "non-free"
> repository:
What is it that you are trying to say? The 'hplip' we ship in Debian is
entirely free software and enables to print to a very large variety of HP
printers, I don't see why it should be moved to 'non-free' (it _is_ free
afterall).
That said, the binary plugin is certainly a problem, but removing free
software from Debian is not going to help anyone.
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Cheers,
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