Apple Buys Out CUPS Printing

Written by Michael Larabel in Apple on 12 July 2007 at 12:00 PM EDT. Add A Comment
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Michael Sweet has announced today on the CUPS website that Apple Inc has purchased the source-code to the Common UNIX Printing System and has hired him to continue work on CUPS. Michael went on to add that CUPS will continue to be released under GPL2/LGPL2 terms.
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