[ILUG] CUPS support for Epson Stylus C64 Printer

[Brian Foster]

  | To: Irish Linux Users Group <ilug at linux.ie>
  | Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:49:31 -0800
  | 
  | Quoting Brian Foster (blf at utvinternet.ie):
  | > I dunno how well [known] it is, but Epson does provide utilities and
  | > "drivers" for printers et.al., as (as far as I can recall) under the
  | > GPL; at any rate the source is (was?) available for free (as in beer).
  | 
  | Just for the record, it's actually the same, currently very popular
  | dodge indulged by Nvidia, Conexant, Lucent, etc., where the key
  | functionality is provided in a proprietary, binary-only module that
  | you're allegedly prohibited from reverse-engineering, etc.  _Wrapper_
  | software surrounding that core -- the parts that don't matter much --
  | gets issued under open-source licence terms.

 hum...  this does not seem to be case with the EPKowa
 software I am using?  whilst I've never had any reason
 to re-built it, the source appears complete to me; and
 there are no strange binaries.  that is, I see nothing
 which looks like a proprietary core at all, nor can I
 find any mention of no-reverse-engineering &tc in the
 various files.  OTOH, I downloaded the s/w I am using
 >2 years ago, and my printer is a (very!) low end USB
 model which works just fine with the USB modules in my
 stock SuSE kernel; i.e., my info is rather old and there
 really isn't much of anything (in my case) to wrap ....

cheers!
	-blf-
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