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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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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat, Inc.


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