Here is reply from CUPS mailing list: On 11/08/2017 08:58 PM, Michael Sweet wrote: > Zdenek, > >> On Nov 8, 2017, at 11:11 AM, Zdenek Dohnal <zdoh...@redhat.com> wrote: >> ... >> would you mind considering dual license - Apache License 2.0 and GPLv2+? >> Because "OS-supplied library" definition is relative and it could end up >> that any widely used library can be exception (not mention widely used >> libraries differs across distributions - so library would be count as >> "OS-supplied library" on one distro and not on a other) - and that will >> lead into nullifying existing licensing rules. > IANAL and am not comfortable getting into a legal debate about what > constitutes an OS-supplied library or whether GPL2-only software can > "legally" link against libcups. But as an example, CUPS had to deal with > this when linking against OpenSSL in the past by adding an exception to the > license file saying "it is OK to link CUPS against OpenSSL"... I don't see > why that approach would not work for any GPLv2-only project, if there was any > question about CUPS being a standard OS library after almost 20 years of > use... > > Anyways, I can certainly forward your dual-licensing request to the > appropriate people at Apple, but I'm sure they will want to know which > projects/applications you think will be unable to continue using CUPS, and > why. > > Thanks! > > _________________________________________________________ > Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer > > _______________________________________________ > cups-devel mailing list > cups-de...@cups.org > https://lists.cups.org/mailman/listinfo/cups-devel
AFAIK such projects are gutenprint, cups-filters or hplip... does anyone have in mind other projects, which will be unable to use CUPS and reason? -- Zdenek Dohnal Associate Software Engineer Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C
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