Cups question dejavue

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
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> It appears the cups mailing list has been deleted, easyws.com is now
> cups.com, and the apple exclusivity is now complete.  Are we going to have
> to reinvent a new, open source cups?

I guess that rants are fun but CUPS is licensed under the GPL:

http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/license.html