Apple acquires CUPS source

[Matt Johnston]

On 12 Jul 2007, at 18:21, Charlton Wilbur wrote:

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> On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Matt Johnston wrote:
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>>> As you say, since they own the code, they could have just as well  
>>> relicensed it under the BSD, but then, they could not have  
>>> _restricted_ the access as they do with their exception today.
>>
>> Why would they do that after buying it?
>
> Because then they can leave the parts that are currently free to  
> remain free, and make lots of Linux distributions dependent on a  
> printing subsystem that's Apple-owned and BSD-licensed, while not  
> requiring improvements to be submitted to them but still  
> benefitting from those improvements that were submitted.

I think they're much better off sticking it to the Linux politicos  
who will now want to fork a GNU Printing Subsystem so they can rid  
themselves of the taint of Apple code...

M