[tex-live] Ghostscript is now GPL

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Jun 19 17:12:32 CEST 2006


Ralf Stubner wrote:

> Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> writes:
> 
>> They've always released both AFPL and GPL versions in the past.  I think
>> this is simply following suit (ie, the GPL version is released later than
>> that the AFPL edition).
> 
> It is differnt this time. 
...
> However, accoring to 
> Raph Levien's diary¹, they really want to make the GPL version 'leading
> edge' and try to get ESP GS merged. It this works out in the end, this
> sure will be a good thing.
...
> 1 <URL:http://advogato.org/person/raph/diary.html?start=411>

Wow, good news indeed.

-- Rex




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