[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vadim Plessky) writes:
> On Tuesday 31 October 2000 05:41, Ben Reser wrote:
> | 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.
>
> Ben, if you are correct with reasons, I can suggest following:
> 1) put GhostScript 6.0 in Cooker.
> everybody can download it from Cooker for Free
> 2) do not include 6.0 in commercial releases of Mandrake (like one sold in
> Walmart :-). Just put 5.5 inside with notice:
> "you can download latest version of Ghostscript, 6.0, from Mandrake Cooker
> for free. It is free upgrade. Connection costs may apply"
Problem is not that Ghoscript is not free (as speech) software when
it's under Aladdin license..
MandrakeSoft has a strong commitment with free (as speech) software
and we try to avoid as much as possible including non-free software in
our main distrib (we still have some non free softwares but they will
disappear eventually). That's why I don't think we will include
Aladdin version of Ghostscript in Linux-Mandrake..
--
Fr�d�ric Crozat
MandrakeSoft
