On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 01:50, Rahul Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/21/2011 08:33 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: >> * Ghostscript had a deal with FSF to make the latest-but-one version >> GPL, but they sold the latest version with a commercial license. > > There was no deal with FSF. They were the sole copyright holders and > don't require permission or deals with anyone in such a situation. > Who do you refer to as "they" above? Aladdin released Ghostscript under the AFPL, and only old releases were made available under the GPL. The versions released under the GPL were called GNU Ghostscript. In either case, that's an example of someone making a living by producing free software.
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