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Hasn't Apple been a major adopter of/contributor to CUPS?
by tannhaeuser 6y ago
Hasn't Apple been a major adopter of/contributor to CUPS?
- saagarjha 6y agoApple owns the code to CUPS. They hired Sweet, the author, and got the code as well.
- usr1106 6y agoOwn and own. They have licensed it under a permissive open source license https://www.cups.org/blog/2017-11-07-cups-license-change.html https://www.cups.org/blog/2017-11-07-cups-license-change.htm... so everyone would be free to develop it further as they want.
- pabs3 6y agoA permissive but GPL-incompatible license unfortunately. Also, everyone was already free to develop it further as they wanted before the license change.
- usr1106 6y agoWhat would change in the current situation had they used a GPL-compatible permissive license?
- pabs3 6y agoIt wouldn't change the development situation, but Linux distros wouldn't have lots of GPL violations and be ignoring those GPL violations.
- ghaff 6y agoApache 2.0 software is all over the place in Linux distributions. And it's probably the license that most lawyers would recommend for a permissive license. The reason it's not compatible with GPLv2 is the patent termination and indemnification provisions (in the view of the FSF). The code isn't in the kernel though.
- xenophonf 6y agoHow is it GPL-incompatible when the CUPS project explicitly made exceptions to the Apache 2.0 License for GPL compatibility?
- efreak 6y agoLinked above by @phonon https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups