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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Switching to Artifex Ghostscript
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 23:53:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k25b5h5d.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170520205523.GA27152@jasmine>

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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> 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.

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.

[0] https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ghostscript/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript#History
[2] https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-20 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-20 20:55 Switching to Artifex Ghostscript Leo Famulari
2017-05-20 21:53 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
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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