> the AFPL ghostscript is non-free software and has a > restrictive license restricting commercial > distribution...
That's okay, Plan 9 used to be non-free software and have a restrictive license restricting commercial distribution. (But we fixed that.) The last time I imported Ghostscript, GNU Ghostscript was way behind AFPL Ghostscript. There were important bug fixes I wanted that were only available in AFPL Ghostscript. That was years ago now and the situation has probably changed, but gs has been working well enough that I haven't bothered to take the time to upgrade it. Until the next round of revisions to PostScript or PDF, I don't feel a need. Some users in Japan have prepared a gs for Plan 9 that is newer. Maybe they chose the GNU version. > and this has just made the sale of Plan9 CD illegal... This is not true. Section 2.a.ii of the AFPL (see /LICENSE.afpl on a Plan 9 CD) explicitly allows sale of CDs as long as the rest of the software on the CD is free for non-commercial use, which Plan 9 is. Russ
