id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
140	SpliX: port request	Lewis Rosenthal	Silvan Scherrer	"SpliX is a set of CUPS printer drivers for SPL (Samsung Printer Language) printers.

From [http://www.openprinting.org/driver/splix/ OpenPrinting]:

  Note that the original author of the driver, Aurelien Croc, doe not have time any more to do further development and maintenance on the driver. Currently user-supplied patches and fixes are applied by Till Kamppeter to the Subversion repository of the driver and there were no releases and web site updates in the last two years. If you are packaging the driver for a Linux distribution, it is highly recommended to use a Subversion snapshot and not the 2.0.0 release.

When printing from CUPS to a Samsung printer, SpliX is a requirement to get full, native support from such a device.

Suggested sources:

https://gitlab.com/ScumCoder/splix

(includes patches added by third parties through February 5, 2015).

Sourceforge page (for reference):

https://sourceforge.net/projects/splix/

Additional info:

While SpliX is GPL, it does utilize JBIG, which was patented by IBM, Mitsubishi, and AT&T. The last of those expired in the US in 2012. SpliX does not appear to utilize JBIG2, so it should be unencumbered by any remaining software patents.
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