Bug 274468

Summary:	Lack of default support for magicolor2530DL
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5>
Component:	Printing	Assignee:	Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	openSUSE 10.2
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	RPM with PPD file on GPL license.

Description Rafał Miłecki 2007-05-14 18:53:38 UTC

I think it would be nice to support this printer (MC 2530DL) right after installation of OS. openSUSE 10.2 includes a lot of PPD files but there isn't PPD for KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 2530DL.

I noticed that PPD provided with my printer is available on GPL licence so I send it to you ─ to let you include it into openSUSE 10.3. I get it from CD which was inside of box with printer.

Comment 1 Rafał Miłecki 2007-05-14 18:57:57 UTC

Created attachment 139885 [details]
RPM with PPD file on GPL license.

This RPM includes a few files and two of them are important:
* km2530dl.ppd.gz (provides ppd supporting mc2530DL)
* COPYING (gives info about license)

This file was found on CD provided with printer.

Comment 2 Klaus Singvogel 2007-05-15 08:33:58 UTC

Thanks.

So far, I can tell:

1. The PPD file does not contain any information whether it's under GPL or not. But even more the copyright says clear it is restricted to "KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC." The included GPL license does _not_ reference to any included file. It's just included.

2. The PPD file requires the program "rastertokm2530dl". This program is included in the RPM, but the required source code is not included.
Digging short through the program, it seems not to have any copyright notice, which means we are unable to redistribute it.
But nevertheless. As the source is missing, we cannot build it for all of our supported platforms, nor can do any security updates (if necessary) in future.

Sorry to say, but this driver cannot be shipped by us.

We need two things:
every file needs a clear statement that it is under GPL, or similar redistributable license. We need the source code files for updates and support of our platforms.

Please ask the support of KONICA MINOLTA for these, if you are interested. Good luck.

If you made it, feel free to reopen this bug. But at the moment we cannot add the driver ==> INVALID.

Comment 3 Rafał Miłecki 2007-05-15 15:03:32 UTC

Thank you Klaus Singvogel for *great* explaination. I'll try to contact with KM.

Comment 4 Johannes Meixner 2007-05-21 07:15:39 UTC

FYI:
Actually it ia a duplicate of bug #214599.