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Apple owns the copyright for CUPS. Apple employs the original developer of CUPS, which is Michael Sweet. Apple employees (Michael Sweet) made 150 commits in t
by dsp1234 9y ago
Apple owns the copyright for CUPS.
Apple employs the original developer of CUPS, which is Michael Sweet.
Apple employees (Michael Sweet) made 150 commits in the last year and a half. The next contributor has 7. He has 50k+ additions/deletions. The next contributor has 8k.
It's safe to say that Apple develops CUPS.
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Michael Sweet himself in this announcement also uses the terms "Apple is excited to announce" and "we"[0]
[0] - https://lists.cups.org/pipermail/cups-devel/2017-November/017085.html https://lists.cups.org/pipermail/cups-devel/2017-November/01...
- chmaynard 9y agoUsing your logic, one could argue that LLVM was also developed by Apple. I think Chris Lattner might object to that claim.
- Twisell 9y agoI think lattner will never bite the hand that feeded him and trusted him and his team to develop a new language (Swift) even if he now is sailing with another company.