cups_get_dests licensing

Stijn Hoop stijn at sandcat.nl
Fri Aug 31 02:20:07 PDT 2007


Hi,

In order to solve GNOME bug 469210,

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469210

I needed to copy a bit of code from cups/dests.c:cups_get_dests
function. You can view my patch at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=94100&action=view

where the first 30 lines of cups_parse_lpoptions are more or less
copied verbatim.

However CUPS is licensed LGPL2 only, while Gtk+ is licensed LGPL2 or later. This means that I cannot use this code as is, unless the CUPS developers agree to relicense the code for Gtk+.

Hence my question: is this ok?

Regards,

--Stijn




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