Apple buys CUPS

Apple has acquired the CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) project according to a posting posted on Cups.org web site.

"In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me, the creator of CUPS. CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.", Michael R Sweet writes.

Apple has been using CUPS as printing system for Mac OS X for a while. Such a move will help the company to control and orient the development of this project according to its needs, and improve Mac OS X' printing support.

(via MacRumors)