In February 2007, “Apple… acquired the copyright to the code comprising the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS),” Jonny Evans reports for Macworld UK.
“CUPS is a printing system for Unix-like systems that allows computers to act as print servers, a computer running CUPS can accept print jobs from other machines on the network,” Evans reports. “Apple has utilised CUPS since the first iteration of Mac OS X.”
CUPS developer Michael Sweet reported the deal in a recent blog post.
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