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Monday, July 30th, 2007

Apple making interesting exceptions to CUPS license?

Saw this today (snippet only below):

http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L179+I0+T+M10+P1+Q

1) Apple Operating System Development License Exception:

a.) Software that is developed by any person or entity for an Apple Operating System (”Apple OS-Developed Software”), including but not limited to Apple and third party printer drivers, filters, and backends for an Apple Operating System, that is linked to the CUPS imaging library or based on any sample filters or backends provided with CUPS shall not be considered to be a derivative work or collective work based on the CUPS program and is exempt from the mandatory source code release clauses of the GNU GPL. …

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UPDATE at 12:30PM on July 30, 2007: trs81 on #redmonk pointed out this exception has been around for some time and was only updated to say Apple was granting the exception. See the older version in Debian:

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.2.7-4/cupsys-common.copyright