[cups-devel] CUPS License Change Coming

[Michael Sweet]

Zdenek,

> On Nov 30, 2017, at 7:42 AM, Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11/09/2017 08:34 AM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you, Mike. I'll gather the input (we are discussing this issue on
>> Fedora developers list) and as IANAL I'll wait for Fedora legal guys
>> opinion on this issue (Solomon has started discussion already). Then
>> I'll send it to you.
>> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> I got a word from person who is more competent in licenses than me and
> he said the change to Apache 2.0 license is compatible for most GPL/LGPL
> licenses, except for GPLv2 only license. For GPLv2 only + Apache 2.0
> scenario the intent of the upstream copyright holders matters.
> Whole paragraph what he said:
> ...

Thanks, I'll forward this internally at Apple.  Our intent is that everyone can use and link to CUPS, and our assumption is (based on the fact that CUPS is part of most every OS except Windows) that libcups/libcupsimage qualify as system-supplied libraries for the purposes of the GPLv2/LGPLv2.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer