Subject: Re: Packages removals for 2006Q4
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/19/2006 15:45:00
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:19:39PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 03:42:40PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > Is there something that we can make 'the' ghostscript, or has this really
> > split into two concurrent packages? (i.e.: *I* don't want to bother with
> > the details and just want 'a' working gs, and I don't care which one it
> > is!)
>
> Three packages, in fact. The ESP version is specialised for CUPS.
> Whether or not using the AFPL version is ok is a license question.
I thought that AFPL vs GPL was old hat:
Releases and News
The leading edge of Ghostscript development is now under GPL license,
as is the latest release, Ghostscript 8.54.
Ghostscript can be downloaded from cs.wisc.edu and sourceforge.net.
Cheers,
Patrick