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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Switching to Artifex Ghostscript
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 16:55:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170520205523.GA27152@jasmine> (raw)

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The subject of the two Ghostscripts came up last October, but we didn't
really discuss it:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00598.html

The canonical Ghostscript is developed by Artifex Software Inc:

https://ghostscript.com/

We package GNU Ghostscript, which is a fork of Artifex's Ghostscript:

https://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/

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.

If you are curious where Ghostscript is used, try this:

$ guix graph --type=reverse-package ghostscript | dot -Tsvg > /tmp/graph.svg

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-05-20 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-20 20:55 Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-05-20 21:53 ` Switching to Artifex Ghostscript Marius Bakke
2017-05-21 13:06   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-23 17:39     ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-26 12:02       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-23 20:42     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-29 17:50       ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-29 18:33         ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-29 18:38         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-29 20:47           ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-29 22:14           ` Leo Famulari
2017-06-02 16:26             ` Leo Famulari
2017-06-02 18:16               ` Leo Famulari
2017-06-03 13:55                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-29 23:22           ` Mark H Weaver
2017-05-30  4:40             ` Leo Famulari

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