Apple acquires CUPS source

[Matt Johnston]

On 12 Jul 2007, at 17:36, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

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> On 13 juil. 07, at 01:08, Matt Johnston wrote:
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>> 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...
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> CUPS is _still_ GPL/LGPL. Where did you see the license had changed ?

I didn't say the license had changed. Just the ownership.

And if you OWN something, you can do whatever you like to the code,  
GPL or not.

> 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.

Gee, J-C, why do YOU think they bought it?

> What benefit would a BSD license here ?

That's a separate point.

M