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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by tannhaeuser on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:30AM (#24785493)
Hasn't Apple been a major adopter of/contributor to CUPS?
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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by saagarjha on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:39AM (#24785540)
Apple owns the code to CUPS. They hired Sweet, the author, and got the code as well.
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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by usr1106 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:10AM (#24786094)
Own and own. They have licensed it under a permissive open source license https://www.cups.org/blog/2017-11-07-cups-license-change.htm... so everyone would be free to develop it further as they want.
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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by efreak on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:58AM (#24788706)
Linked above by @phonon https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups
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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by pabs3 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:41AM (#24786261)
A permissive but GPL-incompatible license unfortunately. Also, everyone was already free to develop it further as they wanted before the license change.
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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by usr1106 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:07AM (#24786474)
What would change in the current situation had they used a GPL-compatible permissive license?
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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by pabs3 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:23AM (#24786924)
It wouldn't change the development situation, but Linux distros wouldn't have lots of GPL violations and be ignoring those GPL violations.
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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by ghaff on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:20AM (#24788917)
Apache 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.
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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by xenophonf on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:15PM (#24790242)
How is it GPL-incompatible when the CUPS project explicitly made exceptions to the Apache 2.0 License for GPL compatibility?
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