I dont think cups is project driven by single
programmer. Apple hiring lead programmer presents no
threat to the project as long as lead programmer is
dedicated to the project.
In this case the license has been modified to explicitly exclude Apple
from the need to keep derivative products
apple has probably done 'a hostile takeover' of the CUPS project, by
'buying' the author.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1249882244;fp;16;fpid;1
the community thinks this is to safeguard apple from issues with gpl3,
as apple's printing-engine relies on CUPS. maybe, maybe not.
IANAL FWIW
On Thursday 12 July 2007 11:28 pm, Linux Lingam wrote:
can we expect several more of such similar 'hostile' take-overs of
GPL-ed software where a lead-programmer essentially has the right to
revoke the GPL license for whatever motivations?
It's not possible for anyone to
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 23:28 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
apple has probably done 'a hostile takeover' of the CUPS project, by
'buying' the author.
[...]
could this have an impact on our GPL-ed ability to 'print-to-pdf' using CUPS?
[...]
Bah. Repeat four words after me, boys and girls:
F O R K
On 7/12/07, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apple has probably done 'a hostile takeover' of the CUPS project, by
'buying' the author.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1249882244;fp;16;fpid;1
the community thinks this is to safeguard apple from issues with gpl3,
as apple's
apple has probably done 'a hostile takeover' of the CUPS project, by
'buying' the author.
...
the community thinks this is to safeguard apple from issues with gpl3,
as apple's printing-engine relies on CUPS. maybe, maybe not.
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/license.html
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--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apple has probably done 'a hostile takeover' of the
CUPS project, by
'buying' the author.
apple also bought the GPL-ed software similarly,
that was the
precursor to 'shake' its video-compositing app.
can we expect several more of such similar
