[gs-devel] Re: Merger of ESP and GPL GhostScript: (Nearly) Completed

[Ralph Giles]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:59:42PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:

> Now I have uploaded half of the listed items. To make everything 
> consistent I have at least to do everything except the KRGB patch (the 
> only patch with a known bug causing a segfault on some HP printers using 
> HPIJS),

Hadn't heard that. We supposedly have a copyright assigned version of 
the KRGB patch so it can go in the main tree. I'll see what the status 
of that is.

Some general comments:

Upstream Ghostscript is dual GPL/Commercial, so we need copyright 
assignment on anything going into the make src tree. Things that
can't be included in the commercial release can go in contrib, 
which we will strip when we make a non-GPL release.

So things you've added to contrib and contrib.mak can stay, as can
the automake patch for ijs, but you must revert everything you've 
checked into src or lib. That work needs to be on a branch until we 
get 8.57 out and can discuss things, verify it builds on all platforms,
and so on.

We're waiting on a patch and review of another regression before we
can do the 8.57 release. The current plan is tomorrow.

 -r