[nylug-talk] Read it and weep.

[Brian Gupta]

Read it again. They also stated in the license, basically anything CUPS
related can be closed sourced if it is for OS X. (This mostly effects third
party development.)

What is interesting is that they now own the entire CUPS source code base.
This means that they have effectively forked the license. All code
submissions were reassigned to the author, and since the author sold the
source code to Apple, Apple now owns the entire source base. They are now
free to include a closed source version of CUPS in Mac OS X. (Or on any OS
for that matter.)

-Brian

On 7/30/07, Henning Follmann <hfollmann at itcfollmann.com> wrote:
>
> Brian Gupta wrote:
> > http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L179+I0+T+M10+P1+Q
> >
> > Apple forked CUPS, and has managed to close source it in the process.
> >
>
>
>
> Well they did NOT close source cups. They injected the posibility to
> have closed source drivers.
> This brings us again to the very emotional conducted discussion "are
> closed sourced drivers evil?".
> But fact is that some manufacturers just don't want to release any
> specifications around their crappy products (because then you actually
> would see how crappy they are). But apple still wants to offer support
> for their products and I think they cannot afford to not do so.
>
> CUPS is still GPL and that does not change. That's the bottom line.
>
> --
> Henning
>
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