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Subject: Re: Why do we have both ghostscript-gpl and ghostscript-gnu?
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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.