Ghostscript have changed its license from GPL-3+ to AGPL-3+ since version 9.07.
Ghostscript includes a library - libgs9 - licensed as AGPL-3+ like the
rest of the project. It also includes a set of Type1 fonts apparently¹
licensed the same.
I've tried² suggest relicensing of the library part, mentioning the the
problems AGPL has for libraries and fonts, and referring to our recent
thread here. Seems they have no interest in such change - or perhaps I
simply failed in getting the message across - perhaps others here can
help explain them the problems better than me.
Seems that these projects may link against Ghostscript, and therefore
(possibly) effectively becomes AGPL-3+ with this change:
* gimp
* texlive-bin (texlive-binaries)
* libspectre (libspectre1)
* cantor
* evas-loaders (libevas-loaders)
* efl (libevas1, libecore-evas1, libecore-imf1, libecore-input1,
libedje-bin, libedje1, libemotion1, libethumb-client1,
libethumb1, libevas1-engine-fb, libevas1-engines-core,
libevas1-engines-x)
* e17
* exactimage (edisplay)
* enna
* intone
* edbus (libedbus1)
* elementary (libelementary1, libelementary-bin)
* python-edbus
* libphone-ui-shr
* phoneuid
* evince (libevdocument3-4, evince, gir1.2-evince-3.0, libevview3-3,
evince-gtk)
* denemo
* gnome-documents
* gnome-sushi
* sugar-browse-activity
* okular
* qpdfview-ps-plugin
* zathura-ps
* gle-graphics
AGPL Ghostscript is now in experimental. How to proceed?
- Jonas
¹ Font license: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695210
² AGPL library: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695212
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