Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 12th Jul 2007 19:23 UTC, submitted by wibbit
Apple has bought the CUPS code base, and has hired it's lead developer. "CUPS was written by Michael R Sweet, an owner of Easy Software Products. In February of 2007 Apple Inc. hired Michael and acquired ownership the CUPS source code. While Michael is primarily working on non-CUPS projects, he will continue to develop and support CUPS, which is still being released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms."
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2007-06-13
Apple can do whatever they want with the code if the other developers have given up their copyright and assigned it to them. So yes, they can just ignore them, and no, they don't have to redo any GPL2 code. (Which is why giving up your copyright stinks most of the time IMHO.)