[cups] Why are we letting Apple Break printing in Linux?

[Michael Eager]

OpenPrinting is a WorkGroup sponsored by Linux Foundation (and it's
predecessor, Free Standards Group) since 2006.  You can find their
website at http://openprinting.org (redirects to 
https://openprinting.github.io/)
You can find information about OpenPrinting's support of CUPS on the
website.

When a project (like CUPS) is forked and maintained by another
organization, this does not change the copyrights owned by the
previous maintainer(s).  Unless Apple transferred copyright ownership to
OpenPrinting (which I doubt) they still retain the copyrights to
whatever code they claim ownership.  That is why you see the
copyright notice on the CUPS webpage.  (The OP CUPS source code also has
copyright notices for OpenPrinting.)  Apple owns the trademark for
CUPS.


On 10/11/23 11:54, Mark Dm wrote:
> No idea where the open printing web site is nor open printing's relation to
> cups. I do know that My cops page on my CUPS 2.3.3opv2 server says
> copyright Apple Computer. No mention of Open Printing.other than the "op"
> in version

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Michael Eager