Re: [x-posted] potentially-damaging news: Apple 'buys' CUPS

Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:55:49 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi,gmane.user-groups.linux.india.general
Organization Sarai, CSDS
Message-ID <1184264749.21474.21.camel@anubis>
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 23:28 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
> apple has probably done 'a hostile takeover' of the CUPS project, by
> 'buying' the author.
[...]
> could this have an impact on our GPL-ed ability to 'print-to-pdf' using CUPS?
[...]

Bah. Repeat four words after me, boys and girls:

F O R K

Though I must say that I am kind of surprised that Novell is saying that
they will distribute GPLv3 software rather than starting a v2/v3 fork
war.

Regards,
Gora



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