Apple acquires CUPS source

[Charles Dyer]

On 12 Jul 2007, at 12:08:27, Matt Johnston wrote:

>
> Pursuant to our previous discussion about how Apple deals with GPL  
> software, they've just acquired CUPS.
>
> 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...

Excellent. So how long is it going to be before the latest-and- 
greatest version of CUPS is rolled into OS X? IIRC Tiger has CUPS  
1.1.something and the latest version is 1.2.10 or 11 or something  
close. And, based on reports seen in passing in various places, it  
further appears that CUPS 1.2.x and both Tiger and Panther aren't the  
best of friends.

>
> I mentioned before that I had a developer working for me. I do the  
> Google thing and provide him with free time to work on open source  
> projects while still getting paid. But I insist it has to be BSD  
> licensed. Because the BSD license is Free.
> (of course I may have just hired him to work for my CURRENT  
> employer in my team....which means starting to look for another  
> Cocoa-chomping poorly-paid-but-at-least-paid intern sometime soon)
>
> M
>
>
> Matt Johnston
> pelorus at mac.com
>
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