tensixtyone » cups http://tensixtyone.com Rants of Andrew Williams / Nik_Doof Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:58:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 CUPS "bought" http://tensixtyone.com/perma/cups-bought http://tensixtyone.com/perma/cups-bought#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:28:00 +0000 Andrew Williams http://blog.tensixtyone.com//2007/07/12/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.

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