Files in Resources/CMap in ghostscript have the following non-free (but not really unreasonable) license: %%Copyright: ----------------------------------------------------------- %%Copyright: Copyright 1990-1998 Adobe Systems Incorporated. %%Copyright: All Rights Reserved. %%Copyright: %%Copyright: Patents Pending %%Copyright: %%Copyright: NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property %%Copyright: of Adobe Systems Incorporated. %%Copyright: %%Copyright: Permission is granted for redistribution of this file %%Copyright: provided this copyright notice is maintained intact and %%Copyright: that the contents of this file are not altered in any %%Copyright: way from its original form. %%Copyright: %%Copyright: PostScript and Display PostScript are trademarks of %%Copyright: Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in %%Copyright: certain jurisdictions. %%Copyright: ----------------------------------------------------------- Debian has already run into this, and put things like this in non-free. http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2009/09/24/adobe-data-freed/ http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cmap/License Some debian discussion: http://osdir.com/ml/general/2009-10/msg07036.html I propose to tag ghostscript as modified-bsd AND gnu-gpl-v3 given adobe's relicensing, and not worry that we don't have a version of ghostscript with the change yet. Objections?
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