foo2zjs drivers

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 13.10.2007 19:26, Marko Anastasov wrote:
>
> Today I ran the Ubuntu Gutsy RC LiveCD, and I was surprised
> to find my HP LaserJet 1022 working flawlessly, for the first
> on any GNU/Linux distro. This is because I never found a driver
> for this model, and none of the others (ie, for other models)
> managed to work well. I quickly opened system-config-printer,
> and saw that the printer has been configured to run with the
> driver named "HP... Foomatic/foo2zjs". I googled a bit and
> noticed that a Fedora package being mentioned as available in
> Livna. I downloaded the tarball from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/
> and saw that driver is licensed under the GPL.
> 
> I'm curious why is this driver not provided by Fedora?

Because the driver is not free software or patent encumbered (can't
remember which of the two reasons applies). That's why it's in livna and
soon rpmfusion.

CU
knurd