UFR 2 printing issues

[Ajay]

Hi Markus Wanner

> Also note that their license is unclear to me. You have to agree to the
> GPL (among other licenses), but yet they don't ship all of the source code.

> Thus, UFR II should clearly be considered a binary driver.

Unfortunately, I mistook Canon to be a good Linux citizen for offering Linux drivers for download, and bought their printer. Now I'm stuck with it.

Regards

Ajay

> Hello Ajay,
>
> On 12/15/2010 08:17 AM, Ajay wrote:
> > Canon provides linux drivers for download. The same is available on Arch Linux, thru AUR - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35405
>
> I'm using the same driver on my x86(_64) machines and would like to use
> the printer on an arm based box as well.
>
> > The Linux driver seems to be flaky. Print commands are sometimes honored, and many a times they are not.
>
> I've also experienced various issues and problems with their driver.
>
> Also note that their license is unclear to me. You have to agree to the
> GPL (among other licenses), but yet they don't ship all of the source code.
>
> Thus, UFR II should clearly be considered a binary driver.

>
> Regards
>
> Markus Wanner
>