[tex-live] Fwd: [gs-devel] GPL Ghostscript 8.70 release

Vladimir Volovich vvv at vsu.ru
Mon Aug 3 12:54:36 CEST 2009


"MS" == Martin Schröder writes:

 MS> FYI.  Note that they have switched to GPLv3, making a combination
 MS> of gs and pdftex/luatex/*tex,

BTW, what kind of combination do you mean?

 MS> which are still GPLv2, impossible.

but not if the license is "GPLv2 or any later version", like e.g. pdftex?:

> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
> terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
> Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
> version.

Best,
v.


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