[cups.general] Is this a violation of Copyright/License?

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have contacts to appropriate persons at the management and in the 
engineering team at Konica Minolta. I will make them aware of their 
violation of the GPL (earlier drivers they published correctly as source 
code and I pubished them in Madriva Linux and Mandriva's build bot 
happily built them for 64-bit and PPC).

I will report as soon as I have an answer from the Konica Minolta guys.

Rick, thank you very much for your report.

    Till


Rick Richardson wrote:
> Is this a violation of Copyright/License?
> 
> http://www.qms.com/support/current_printers/mc2530dl_sup.htm#Drivers
> 
> *  This filter is modified from CUPS 1.15 sample filter rastertohp.c
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from "Tech Support: KMPS" <support at bpus.konicaminolta.us> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:24:58 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Tech Support: KMPS" <support at bpus.konicaminolta.us>
> To: Rick Richardson <rick.richardson at comcast.net>
> Subject: RE: Re: KONICA MINOLTA SupportMail (#8856-59879086-5812)
> 
> Dear Rick Richards
> 
> Thank you for contacting us.
> 
> Modification of any code is not supported as with ANY H/W or S/W modifications made by the consumer.
> Code for driver manipulation will not be placed on the FTP site for download
> 
> Please contact the Konica Minolta Printing Solutions Customer Support Center if you have additional questions, problems, or issues with your printer.
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Customer Support Team
>  (T-923561)
> KONICA MINOLTA PRINTING SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC.
> Email Address: support at bpus.konicaminolta.us
> Corporate Web Site: http://printer.konicaminolta.com/
> Online Buying Source: http://www.q-shop.com
> Online Answer Base Support: http://printer.konicaminolta.com/support/casebase/index.html
> Support Phone Number:  1-877-778-2687
> Support Hours:   7:00 am - 7:00 pm Central Time, Mon - Fri
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Richardson (rick.richardson at comcast.net)
> Sent: Dec 1, 2006 8:42:32 PM
> Subject: Re: KONICA MINOLTA SupportMail (#8856-59879086-5812)
> 
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 05:44:03PM -0800, Tech Support: KMPS wrote:
>> Dear Rick Richardson,
>>
>> Thank you for contacting us.  I am unsure of what you are asking for, this particular printer driver is run through ghostscript which acts as a translator for it.  Any alterations would be made through ghostscript as several people have done already.  Please refer to the link below.
> 
> I am asking for you to put up the SOURCE CODE for your driver, as
> this is GPL source code.
> 
> Second request.
> 
> Please read this from your RPM if you don't understand...
> 
> /usr/share/KONICA_MINOLTA/mc5430DL/COPYING
> 
> -Rick
> 
>>  T-923561
>> KONICA MINOLTA PRINTING SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC.
>> Email Address: support at bpus.konicaminolta.us
>> Corporate Web Site: http://printer.konicaminolta.com/
>> Online Buying Source: http://www.q-shop.com
>> Online Answer Base Support: http://printer.konicaminolta.com/support/casebase/index.html
>> Support Phone Number:  1-877-778-2687
>> Support Hours:   7:00 am - 7:00 pm Central Time, Mon - Fri
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: server at fusionpointmedia.com
>> Sent: Nov 29, 2006 3:42:25 PM
>> Subject: KONICA MINOLTA SupportMail
>>
>> Submitted online printer.konicaminolta.net
>>
>> FORM submitted at 11/29/2006 3:37:33 PM
>>
>> Name: Rick Richardson
>> Email From: rick.richardson at comcast.net
>> Product: magicolor 2530DL
>> Release/Firmware:
>> Serial Number: 11111111
>> Operating System: Linux
>> Connection: TCP/IP
>> First Email (y/n): Yes
>> Description:
>> Printer Driver for Linux
>> Version: 2.0.0 Size: 1M Date: 26-Sep-06
>>
>> This is GNU Public License.  But the source code is not online.
>> Please fix this so people with AMD 64-bit and PPC can make their own from the source code.
> 
> --
> Rick Richardson rick.richardson at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~rickrich1/
> Linux printer driver for HP CLJ 2600n       http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/
> Linux printer driver (KM 2430 and HP 10xx)  http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/
> Linux tools for geocaching                  http://geo.rkkda.com/
> 
> I prefer three holes.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
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