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CUPS Purchased By Apple Inc.

Posted by kdawson on from the carry-on-printing-as-before dept.

Rick Richardson writes to note a posting on cups.org that reveals that Apple, which in 2002 first licensed CUPS for printing in OS X, purchased the source code last February and hired its main developer, Michael R. Sweet. Sweet writes: "CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple." There are no comments on the post. What exactly did Apple purchase? It was and is an open source project. Trademarks aren't mentioned.

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  1. Re:"What exactly did Apple purchase?" by CRiMSON · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Look at who your talking to /. isn't known for it's smarts, or even comprehension of ideas (and who can forget.. spelling).

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  2. Re:CUPS web interface not up to par by prockcore · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think now Apple in control, they may make it same way on Linux that only actual system admins would care about the CUPS interface and end users may have a similar feeling on Linux/FreeBSD.


    I think now Apple is in control, they'll drop all non-OSX support.
  3. Re:RMS Proffing by sumdumass · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Some people claim that not only is the GPLv3 incompatible, but it isn't within the same spirit of the GPLv2 when the GPLv2 was applied.

    I'm one of these people.
    When one license says that act of running it is outside the scope of the license and the new license says that it needs to control the hardware to make sure it can be run, Something doesn't jive.