Re: [Matplotlib-users] ghostscript-8.16 or later

I think all this adds up to it would be nice to be free of this dependency =
:).

On 1/24/06, Darren Dale <dd...@co...> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 17:55, Robert Kern wrote:
> > Ryan Krauss wrote:
> > > I have actually read the AFPL as a way to try and understand the
> > > difference.  I think the only difference between the AFPL and GPL is
> > > that the GPL allows you to charge someone for the service of
> > > distributing a copy of the software where the AFPL does not.  (I coul=
d
> > > sell CD's of GPL ghostscript if I wanted to, but anyone who bought
> > > them must be free to give away copies to whoever they want.  I don't
> > > know if the AFPL would allow me to even charge for the media cost.)
> > >
> > > I have no idea why this small difference has lead to at least two
> > > different branches of ghostscript.
> >
> > Aladdin wanted to make money by selling Ghostscript but still play sort=
a
> > nice with the open source world. So when they make a stable release, it=
 is
> > under the AFPL for N years, then it reverts to the GPL. I think the FSF=
 may
> > have officially forked the project, too, but I'd have to reread the
> > webpages to be sure. And I don't actually care enough to do so.  :-)
>
> I read somewhere recently that the gnu-ghostscript project was renamed
> gpl-ghostscript. Who needs a drink?
>
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