CVS commit: pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-gpl

["Greg Troxel" <gdt%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   gdt
Date:           Thu Feb 14 01:34:08 UTC 2019

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-gpl: DESCR

Log Message:
ghostscript-gpl: Clarify the nature of this package

Attempting to be as factual and dispassionate as possible, explain
more about what this is (last GPL version, not just a version that is
GPL), when the 9.06 release was, and why the package came to be.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.3 -r1.4 pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-gpl/DESCR

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-gpl/DESCR
diff -u pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-gpl/DESCR:1.3 pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-gpl/DESCR:1.4
--- pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-gpl/DESCR:1.3      Sat Apr 26 13:51:40 2014
+++ pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-gpl/DESCR  Thu Feb 14 01:34:08 2019
@@ -4,4 +4,7 @@ and some displays.
 
 Support for Cups is enabled by the "cups" option (off by default).
 
-This package contains Ghostscript 9.06, released under the GPL.
+This package contains Ghostscript 9.06, the last Ghostscript release
+under GPL3 (August, 2012).  Newer releases are under AGPL3 (see
+ghostscript-agpl); this package exists for those that prefer an old
+GPL3 version to the AGPL3 version maintained by upstream.