[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Reser) writes:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:32:48AM +0000, Luis Alves wrote:
> > ghostscript 6.0.1 can read pdf files from version 4 of adobe acrobat
> > as all postscript level 3 implemented, can convert
> > files to pdf with the fonts problem resolved.
> >
> > can some body tell me why is the version still 5.5.
>
> I believe it's a licensing issue. IIRC ghostscript isn't GPL anymore and uses
> a license the requires permission to distribute "commercialy" (e.g. a commercial
> distribution such as Mandrake). And I think they only give such permission for
> a couple versions back from the current one. But I may be wrong.
To be exact, last available version of ghostcript (6.01) is under non
full open source license (Aladdin license) but when a new version
becomes available, old version is re-licensed under GNU GPL (currently
GNU Ghoscript 5.5)
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Fr�d�ric Crozat
MandrakeSoft
