CUPS "bought"
I just spotted a post by Nik Butler on Pownce saying that CUPS (a widely used printing system for *BSD, Linux and OSX) has been bought by Apple, no licenses will be affected and it’ll remain GPL2, but for how long?
I wonder how exactly Apple can buy this project, It seems that the Dev has been hired by Apple and he’s handed over the rights to Apple. So with Apple at the helm what can we expect? Personally, while i’m not anti-apple, I do feel that theres something to worry about here. With Apple being in control of the copyright it may be relicensed under the Apple opensource license or worse, close sourced.
Probably Apple will do with CUPS as they did with Zeroconf/Bonjour and KHTML/WebKit (I know they did not buy KHTML)
I think its great with Apples power behind CUPS. Just look at CUPS 1.3, hard to think that Michael Sweet would have made sucha a progress on his own.
ZeroConf and KHTML would never be were they are today if not for Apples involvement.
axl
12 Jul 07 at 3:28 pm