CUPS Arabic support ?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Sun May 23 05:59:26 PDT 2004


Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
> ...
> well, i can talk to the author about an apple port.
> 
> please reconsider this, because FriBidi is a widely used
> implementation.

It is not a technical issue, but a legal one.  Any core code in
CUPS MUST be owned by us or available under an unrestrictive license
(i.e. BSD-style) since we relicense the code under other licenses
(such as the one that Apple uses, although there are other companies
licensing the code as well)

Also, depending on an ALPHA-quality piece of software
for a core part of CUPS printing is also something we do not want to
do.

In short, in order for us to accept your patch, it must be
unencumbered and not depend upon a third-party library that cannot
be included in the CUPS source code.

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