Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (161 mails)

[Dave Plater <dplater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/19/2010 07:39 PM, Juergen Weigert wrote:
> On Jan 19, 10 09:29:48 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
>   
> > >   
> > >       
> > So the License: in the spec file for ghostscript-omni is supposed to be? :-
> > a) The same as the actual license in the Omni directory of the source -
> > LGPLv2.1
> >     
> ghostscript-8.70.tar.bz2/ghostscript-8.70/contrib/gomni.c is LGPLv2.1
> I could not find an omni directory in the source.
>
>   
> > or
> > b) The same as the ghostscript-8.70 license - GPLv3
> >     
> The header files linked into gomni.c appear to be under artifex license.
> Which I will consider to be GPLv2+ for our purposes.
>
> I assume that ghostscript-omni only contains one driver binary. 
> Technically correct is then:
>
> LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2+ [& ...]
>
> Add more licenses [& ...], as you find them being  for everything that is 
> integrated into the omni-binary.
> If and how the end construct of that mix is sane, is a second
> question. Sigh.
>
>         cheers,
>                 JW-
>
>   
Here's foomatc's solution :-
Problem is solved now in the BZR repository of foomatic-filters. Lars
Uebernickel has changed the code from using libgs to calling Ghostscript
on the command line. Using libgs is not needed, the libgs API has no
advantages against the command line call of Ghostscript.

Also the licensing is clarified, it is "GPLv2 or later", as it already
was with Foomatic 3.x.

   Till

Dave Plater wrote:
> Hi, I package for openSUSE and I've stumbled upon a licensing problem.
> Foomatic-filters might be licensed under GPLv2 only, I've examined the
> package and there isn't anything apart from the COPYING file that
> clarifies the issue. If foomatic-filters uses "GPLv2 only" then it
> cannot use libgs from ghostscript-8.70 due to the fact that ghostscript
> have switched to GPLv3.
> Regards
> Dave P
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Regards
Dave P

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