Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:43:23 +0000 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> To: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why do we have both ghostscript-gpl and ghostscript-gnu? Message-ID: <20041230104323.GA44922@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <41D3BA59.9060505@redesjm.local> References: <20041229222343.GA71433@dragon.nuxi.com> <41D3BA59.9060505@redesjm.local>
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On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:20:41AM +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > >What's the difference between ghostscript-gpl and ghostscript-gnu? A > >diff of their Makefile's doesn't make it any clearer. > > > > > > > Versions. > It was after a change in licence from the originator. According to the pkg-descr, these should both be the same (the GNU GPL). > > -gnu must remain at 7.x and unmaintained. > -gpl is the new 8.x source distribution. Please add this information to pkg-descr. In general, whenever somebody copy a port - MAKE SURE BOTH pkg-descr FILES DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENCES. (This is a general plea - we've got maybe a hundred duplicates, and they're annoying.) Eivind.
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