On 01/15/2010 02:26 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:20:13PM +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've come across my first license problem with ghostscript-8.70, it has switched to GPL v3. There are a lot of packages that depend on ghostscript, lilypond being one and apparently TeXLive sub packages. How are problems like this resolved. Having an old ghostscript version isn't good for attracting people to the distro. I'm totally in the dark about these things but as a packager I need to know about them.
As long as the program calls "gs" via system it is just use and does not impose license requirements the calling programs.
Most of those programs do it that way.
I am not aware that ghostscript exposes libraries?
Ciao, Marcus
This was passed on in bnc# 568280 by the ghostscript maintainer, I'm just finishing an updated ghostscript-library and it came as a bit of a shock, not knowing anything about it. Fedora have gs-8.70 and I should imagine they would conform in much the same way as openSUSE. Dr Werner Fink specifically mentioned TeXLive sub packages. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org