[cups-devel] [LOW] STR #4337: CUPS license upgrade to GPLv2+ ?

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[STR Unresolved]

Didier,

We cannot, for a number of legal and (Apple) liability reasons, relicense
CUPS as [L]GPL2+.  It will never happen.

OpenSSL support has been removed from the CUPS 2.0 source code and is not
an option.

That leaves you with using GnuTLS ([L]GPL2/3) or porting Apple's
CDSA/Security code (Apache license), although the Apache license may not be
GPL3 compatible according to the FSF.  Given that GnuTLS is included with
basically every Linux distribution as a standard OS component, it SHOULD
automatically fall under the [L]GPL2/3 exception for system libraries (just
as OpenSSL should have fallen under the same exception...)  If not, then I
humbly suggest you talk to the FSF.

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4337
Version: 1.7.1
Fix Version: Will Not Fix
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