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Re: ghostscript packages maintainer
On Sep 20 04:09, James R. Phillips wrote:
> --- Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Sep 19 20:41, Ja>
> > Can you give us a direct pointer to the license?
> >
>
> AFPL is located at:
>
> http://www.artifex.com/downloads/doc/Public.htm
>
> Additional info at:
>
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost
>
> In particular, AFPL ghostscript is currently at 8.50, while GNU ghostscript is
> at 8.15.
Thank you. Unfortunately the AFPL doesn't allow us to distribute
that version of ghostscript, since it doesn't follow any open source
license approved by OSI, see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
and http://cygwin.com/licensing.html.
Also see the explicit remark starting the second paragraph of the AFPL:
"This License is not an Open Source license".
Please stick with GNU ghostview or some equivalent, open source licensed
product.
Thanks,
Corinna
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