[gs-devel] GPL Ghostscript 8.62 and GhostPDL 1.52 released

[Masayuki Hatta]

Hi,

>>>>> In <14D16E9F-4C46-401C-AE28-5F3F251A2025 at ghostscript.com> 
>>>>>	Ralph Giles <giles at ghostscript.com> wrote:

> There were approximately 55 bugs fixed since version 8.61. Also of
> note, the GPL font set for postscript is now included under the
> Resource directory, so a separate font download is no longer
> necessary.

> Fonts are now distributed in the Resource/Font directory and will be
> included in the executable if COMPILE_INITS=1

> The default URW (GPL) fonts are now distributed in the
> Resource/Font/ path which can increase the number of file handles
> open for PostScript that opens all of the resources. Also the size
> of the %rom % rom file system within the executable when using
> COMPILE_INITS=1 is larger by the amount needed for the fonts.

Well, it's kinda nit-picking, but the newly-added fonts under
Resource/Font have this license notice:

% Copyright (URW)++,Copyright 1999 by (URW)++ Design & Development
% (URW)++,Copyright 1999 by (URW)++ Design & Development
% See the file PUBLIC (Aladdin Free Public License) for license conditions.
% As a special exception, permission is granted to include this font
% program in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that
% contains text to be displayed or printed using this font, regardless
% of the conditions or license applying to the document itself.

I guess you meant "LICENSE (GNU GPL)" since there is no PUBLIC file
anymore, but as written these fonts are non-free, so at least
Debian/Ubuntu can't distribute them as a part of the main
distribution.  Could you update the wording?  If you can't, then I'll
simply remove them from the Debian/Ubuntu source tarball (after all,
we've already removed CMaps for the same reason), so it's not a big
deal anyway.

Best regards,
MH

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Masayuki Hatta
Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo