Feature changed by: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) Feature #310402, revision 4 Title: ZjStream Driver foo2lava (for Konica Magicolor 2490 and others) - openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.4: Rejected by Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) + reject reason: ZjStream driver use JBIG which has patent issues and + exposes our users to legal risks (the user must on his own get a + license for the patents). Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Heidjer Brandt (brandth) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi there, there exist foo2lava printer drivers for several Konica Minolta magicolor printers (e.g. 2490 MF) for already some time. But they are not included in the standard Suse Distribution. It would be nice to include the drivers in the standard distribution. brandth Discussion: #1: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) (2010-12-08 17:51:47) As far as I know all foo2... drivers need JBIG (e.g. for the ZjStream printer protocol) but JBIG has patent issues so that those drivers are not sufficiently free software so that we cannot distribute them. According to http://foo2lava.rkkda.com/ it seems foo2lava is a part of foo2zjs and foo2zjs needs JBIG to implement ZjStream which means foo2zjs/foo2lava is not sufficiently free software so that we cannot distribute it regardless what they call it on the project's home page. The difference is that even if the source code of foo2zjs/foo2lava is free source code, it requires patent protected stuff which makes it non- free software, see "Copyright" versus "Patents" at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=342704#c1 + #2: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) (2011-08-16 12:35:00) + Printer driver software which is not 100% free software cannot be + accepted regardless how nice it would be when this or that awkward + printer model would work. We will not risk any legal issue for openSUSE + and its users and contributors when software where the legal state is + not 100% clear would be accepted. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310402