License flexibility such as this will become increasingly important as the GP元 license is adopted as it resolves many of the loopholes vendors used to ship GPL code in what effect were closed devices ( Tivoization). It is a good way of benefiting from an open source development model and community whilst still being able to ship a modified version of the code on closed devices or only binary form. Mac, AirPort and the iPhone.ĭual licensing such as this is not uncommon by vendors who control the rights to GPL code. What the code purchase suggests is that Apple probably plans on internally re-licensing the code under a closed source license for many, if not all of the platforms that could make use of it, i.e. There would seem to be no immediate danger of CUPS code being completely closed sourced considering it is currently released under the GPL2 license. Apple has used it within OSX from the outset and personally I feel it is the best implementation of CUPS available thanks to the Aqua interface and the fact that the majority of printers just work without any effort. CUPS is significant within the *NIX world because it is arguably the most well supported and feature-rich printing system available. Today the lead developer of the CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) project announced that in February 2007 Apple purchased the CUPS source code and took him on as a staff member.
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Plus if it helps remember that for this money you are reclaiming storage space, so it could be argued $13 is a very small price to pay when your laptop's hard drive cannot be replaced and external USB drives look ugly. Whilst this application does cost a handful of dollars (US$12.95) it has a great interface and keeps a 'blacklist' of applications that experience issues when they are placed on a diet, for example Skype. Fortunately there are a few tools out there that can do the job for you, my favourite being Xslimmer. Now whilst it is possible to do this task manually it is hardly fun or a good use of one's time. So if like me you only understand English, removing superfluous languages and binaries will free gigabytes. Not only is multiple language support installed by default, but most applications come with both x86 and PowerPC binary files. This dilemma is not helped by OSX 10.5 Leopard's installation bloat. These days disk space is not a huge problem, but on a MacBook Air it can get a little tight once all your applications and media libraries are installed.
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