[Nix-dev] Ghostscript versions.

Lluís Batlle i Rossell viric at viric.name
Fri Mar 9 12:00:14 CET 2012


On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:37:55PM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> We still have in nixpkgs GNU Ghostscript by default, instead of GPL Ghostscript.
> 
> For what people at #ghostscript (ghostscript.com) told me, Artifex releases
> GPL Ghostscript. Then, with delay, GNU people take that code, removes all
> references to Artifex, and releases the same under the name GNU Ghostscript (our
> default, and always lagging behind GPL ghostscript).

They remove references to Artifex providing also a commercial licence, iiuc.

So, I take the silence as a "change the default gs to gpl"? :)


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