[texhax] shear transform

[Lars Madsen]

On 2011-05-18 23:37, Peter Davis wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org
> <mailto:karl at freefriends.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     Whether xetex contains any gpl'd code (e.g., from pdftex), I don't know,
>     but I wouldn't rule it out.
>
>
> Actually the problem for me is not the GPL, but the commercial license
> of Ghostscript.  That puts restrictions on redistributing the software,
> though I don't know the details.
>
>
>     http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=xetex_download
>     <http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=xetex_download>
>
>     As Reinhard replied, that's for the code that Jonathan wrote.
>
>
> I'm certainly not a lawyer, but the wording of the statement does not
> appear to limit the redistribution rights to just one portion of XeTeX
> or another.
>
> In any case, this is somewhat off my original topic.  Is there any other
> way, more direct than PSTricks, to, for example, apply a shear transform
> to a block of text on a page?
>
> Thanks,
> -pd
>

doesn't both MikTeX and TeXLive come with their own version of 
ghostscript, and TeXLive is sold in a commercial context (the DVDs)

/daleif