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OpenPrinting CUPS Sources

10 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2021-12-25 · latest 2021-12-25

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  1. …moved attribution to NOTICE file, which is cleaner, but trips people who aren't paying attention: https://github.com/microsoft/cups/blob/main/NOTICE
    comment by ignoramous · 2021-12-25 · in Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
  2. …similar mistakes throughout the past 6 months. Here's the one from CUPS, a Linux printing library: https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/ad69bcc78bdea3fea3f... It used to be Apache License, then it became "MIT License (c) Microsoft…
    comment by fxtentacle · 2021-12-25 · in Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
  3. It's not just bots, it's real people: https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0...
    comment by dapids · 2021-12-25 · in Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
  4. …mind addressing the reason why an employee did exactly what you are claiming the bot did in error? https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0... Again, this is a person, not a robot. How does this play into a "software…
    comment by dapids · 2021-12-25 · in Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
  5. Look at https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0... . This was done by an human.
    comment by ognarb · 2021-12-25 · in Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
  6. …support the project, meanwhile MS takes it, doesn't contribute and acts like it's their own, sick. https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0...
    comment by dapids · 2021-12-25 · in Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
  7. https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0... That's not a bot.
    comment by formerly_proven · 2021-12-25 · in Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
  8. …(MIT changed) https://github.com/microsoft/health-cards-tests/commit/5649b... CUPS (Apache -> MIT) https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/ad69bcc78bdea3fea3f... Credit to this reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/r…
    comment by throwaway277432 · 2021-12-25 · in Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
  9. …has illegally relicensed Apache licensed Apple software in the same way. Apple is very litigious… https://github.com/microsoft/cups
    comment by noodlesUK · 2021-12-25 · in Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
  10. …time now. Here is the cups equivalent with a license change from apache to mit for the CUPS system. https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/ad69bcc78bdea3fea3f...
    comment by ognarb · 2021-12-25 · in Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]