CUPS Printer Support Not Working...

[Graham Todd]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:42:58 +0200
Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> uttered these words:

> The hplip driver coming with Jaunty is broken. It doesn't provide the
> necessary step to allow you to accept the lisence for the proprietary
> driver needed for your printer. Please download and install the latest
> version of the hplip package from [1].
[snipped]

Does this mean that the driver which comes with Jaunty is not free
software, or only the broken one is free software, but being broken it
won't work so the only available is the proprietary driver which
requires you to accept a non-free licence?

-- 
Graham Todd
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