[cups] CUPS License Change Coming

[Narcis Garcia]

With Apache license, you're not required to distribute the source code
of covered work. This makes CUPS change not good towards FOSS, as
modified versions of CUPS can be distributed without releasing modified
version of source code.

This opens door to insecure derivatives or forks.

If CUPS project needs different licensed components to be linked, there
is LGPL for this too.



El 07/11/17 a les 21:48, Michael Sweet ha escrit:
> Narcis,
> 
>> On Nov 7, 2017, at 3:36 PM, Narcis Garcia <informatica at actiu.net> wrote:
>>
>> Not good news for everybody.
>> Why this change? Is it only for logo ownership?
> 
> Please let me know (here or privately) what your concerns are about the license change.
> 
> This change makes CUPS consistent with other Apple open source projects (Swift, WebKit, mDNSResponder, etc.) and resolves some license compatibility issues on Linux that have been reported to us over the years.
> 
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