Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 03:06:41PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: >> > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: >> >> Both programs are distributed under the AGPL, as far as I can tell. But >> >> Artifex Ghostscript is actively developed, which I think is very >> >> important for C software that is designed to handle untrusted input. >> > >> > Thanks for bringing this up. GNU Ghostscript seemed to go >> > mostly-inactive[0] after Artifex changed to AGPL in 2013[1]. The latest >> > "upstream" release is 9.21[2], we have 9.14.0 (from 2014!). >> > >> > I'm in favor of switching to the active fork. >> >> Me too. In fact, I once tried to package Artifex Ghostscript, but >> failed in the attempt to unbundle libraries. > > I'll try this in the next few days. If you still have your old attempt, > I'd be happy to see it :)
Unfortunately, I don’t have it any longer. But some parts of it (like the trio package) have since been merged. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
