[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #13224: Haiku does not detect HP USB scanner
- From: "richienyhus" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 16:49:38 -0000
#13224: Haiku does not detect HP USB scanner
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Reporter: vidrep | Owner: phoudoin
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Printing | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: invalid | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by richienyhus):
Replying to [comment:7 vidrep]:
After more research it appears that HP support comes via the HPLIP
package, which Haiku does not have, but is available for Ubuntu as a
downloadable package from Hewlett Packard. It is MIT and GPL licensed. Can
this be ported to Haiku?
It is GPL licensed, but with some files sublicensed under the MIT and BSD
licenses. There are also non-free binary blobs for some devices that use
"proprietary software technologies" as well. Their website says it is not
designed with portability in mind and does not support "BSD, UNIX,
Solaris, Mac OS X, or Darwin".
However the scanner driver (Sane backend) is one of these sublicensed
components and looks quite portable.
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