From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 10:43:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 683) id CD14216A4CF; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:43:23 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:43:23 +0000 From: Eivind Eklund To: Jose M Rodriguez Message-ID: <20041230104323.GA44922@FreeBSD.org> References: <20041229222343.GA71433@dragon.nuxi.com> <41D3BA59.9060505@redesjm.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41D3BA59.9060505@redesjm.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why do we have both ghostscript-gpl and ghostscript-gnu? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:43:23 -0000 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.