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Hopefully that text is self-explanatory. If it isn't, you need to speak to your lawyer, or the Free Software Foundation.
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE(Apple OS Exception Case) for MAC Driver
This product uses software program which is distributed under the GPL license with a Apple OS Exception .
You can see this Exception text at http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/license.html.
GPL software with a Apple OS Exception: CUPS
<Apple OS Exception text>
In addition, as the copyright holder of CUPS, Apple Inc. grants the following special exceptions:
Apple Operating System Development License Exception;
Software that is developed by any person or entity for an Apple Operating System ("Apple OS-Developed Software"),
including but not limited to Apple and third party printer drivers, filters, and backends for an Apple Operating System,
that is linked to the CUPS imaging library or based on any sample filters or backends provided with CUPS shall not be
considered to be a derivative work or collective work based on the CUPS program and is exempt from the mandatory
source code release clauses of the GNU GPL. You may therefore distribute linked combinations of the CUPS imaging
library with Apple OS-Developed Software without releasing the source code of the Apple OS-Developed Software.
