[cups.development] Licensing

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Dec 10 09:30:42 PST 2007


Premjo wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
>    We have to develop a driver for our printers by using CUPS. but the printer manufacturer commands sets are confidential. So is it possible to sell or realease the driver without the source of commands which is  propritory for the manufacturer?

Yes, of course.

The CUPS API (-lcups) and CUPS Imaging (-lcupsimage) libraries are
both LGPL'd, just like the GNU C library, so just link to the shared
versions of those libraries (the default) to satisfy the requirements
of the LGPL.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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