Re: Updated: ghostscript-5.50-2

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:58:06PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:46:52PM +0100, Jerry van Dijk wrote:
>> >Kevin Wright writes:
>> >
>> > > I have uploaded ghostscript-5.50-2 to cygwin/contrib.
>> >
>> >Why are you using this old version ?
>> >
>> >To get a usable gs on NT, you need at least GSview 3.6, which requires gs 6
>> >as a minimum.
>> 
>> It was not clear that the AFPL would allow distribution:
>> 
>> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/New-user.htm#Find_Ghostscript
> 
>IANAL, but it seems that the AFPL Ghostscript can be distributed as part
>of the free (beer) "net" release, but Red Hat cannot include it in its
>commercial GNUpro distribution.

Yeah, that's my interpretation, too, but IANAL and IDWDTS.

cgf
(I don't want to get sued)

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