On Sep 19 20:41, James R. Phillips wrote: > --- Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote: > > > Hi James, > > > > I am the current maintainer of the ghostscript packages. > > You are welcome to take over the ghostscript package. > > > > The current version is in sync with GNU gs-8.15. > > I shall update you with the requests/issues that I've > > received/handled regarding gs. I haven't had the time > > to look at Yaakov's "evince" query yet. > > > > Thank you for volunteering to take over ghostscript > > maintainership. > > > > Regards, > > rb > > Hm, well I guess I asked for it, didn't I? > > Anyway, gnu ghostscript, by design, lags AFPL ghostscript, and is updated less > often (although it is very stable). Has anyone looked at AFPL, to see whether > the license is acceptable for Cygwin? I think the main issue is limitations > on > commercial distribution. If AFPL were acceptable, cygwin ghostscript could be > jumped up to a more recent release. Debian would regard AFPL as non-free, I'm > certain, but I don't know if that is dispositive for cygwin.
Can you give us a direct pointer to the license? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.
