[cups.general] Re: CUPS Win2k driver ...

C.Lee Taylor leet at leenx.co.za
Thu May 13 09:21:58 PDT 2004


Greetings ...

	Sorry, the last time for today ...

>> Seriously, will this driver be OpenSource, and is it possible to get a 
>> beta copy now for test?

>The driver *will* be open source (specifically, GPL), but as with
>all drivers on Windows you need the MS DDK, available as part of
>an MSDN subscription or separately for some amount of money.  So
>while we'll be able to provide source code, it isn't 100% for
>developers to play with it... 

	Good to hear that the source will be there for those whom have MSDN or the MS DDK, but bad for the rest of us, but better than nothing I say.

	As to the possiblity for getting beta drivers to play with, I take it it's still away off?

Thanks
Mailed
Lee






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