Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:18:36 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Good news: Ghostscript goes GPL Message-ID: <m33be5bb77.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
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Greetings, Artifex have released Ghostscript 8.54 under the GPL, essentially giving up their split licensing model and the time lag of a year for the GPL version. Source: (German language) <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/74347>; This now lists 8.54 as current GPL-licensed ghostscript: <ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/current/>; And the release notes confirm this: <http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=421473&group_id=1897>; Scroll all the way down on this one: <http://www.ghostscript.com/article/71.html>; Note that the ghostscript ports do not have a maintainer at the moment. (I don't have more spare time, so I don't plan to take maintainership for more ports.) However, a unification of existing ghostscript-{afpl,gpl,gnu} ports into one (and its -nox11 slave port) may reduce the number of conflicts on end users's systems. -- Matthias Andree
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