[Nix-dev] Ghostscript versions.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name> skribis:

> 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.

Yes, and you would probably get a different (and more accurate) answer
by asking bug-ghostscript at gnu.org.

Thanks,
Ludo’.