Apple acquires CUPS source

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 13 juil. 07, at 01:08, Matt Johnston wrote:

> CUPS was GPL/LGPL and was owned by Michael R. Sweet. Now it's owned  
> by Apple so any pesky changes to the GPL won't hinder them in  
> future. And they can get rid of the "bran" interface to CUPS and  
> make it all shiny shiny...

CUPS is _still_ GPL/LGPL. Where did you see the license had changed ?

Plus, it is licensed under the (L)GPL 2 strictly (as far as I've  
seen). So no possibility to have a third party relicense it to GPLv3.

_And_ Apple has granted exceptions to the GPL that make code release  
non compulsory for soft running on Apple's OS.

http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L179+I0+T+M50+P1+Qlicense

What benefit would a BSD license here ?

Jean-Christophe Helary