Hi,
On 08-11-17 15:06, Solomon Peachy wrote:
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 08:54:03AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
Is there anyone who could raise concerns to Apple about the license
change? Maybe convince them to dual-license it or something?
Well, Michael Sweet (mswet AT apple.com) remains the primary developer
of CUPS, and this has been raised on the CUPS mailing list in response
to the announcement he posted.
Here's the latest response [1] on that thread:
I don't think static linking against libcups is common enough to be a
serious concern - CUPS is fairly ubiquitous and easily falls under the
"OS-supplied library" exception in the GPL 2. And existing GPL-2-only
software that *does* statically link/copy CUPS code can continue to do
so with CUPS 2.2.x and earlier.
Someone should reply to that that the OS exception only applies when
distributing binaries separate from said OS, not for binaries bundled
with the OS, which all Linux distros are (AFAIK, IANAL).
IMHO some sort of ASL / LGPL dual license would be best (if upstream
is willing to make such a change).
Regards,
Hans
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