From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: Switching to Artifex Ghostscript Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 23:53:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87k25b5h5d.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <20170520205523.GA27152@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCCJw-0000SK-Gk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2017 17:53:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCCJt-0005Nj-Dh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2017 17:53:56 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:33363) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCCJt-0005Nc-90 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2017 17:53:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170520205523.GA27152@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari , guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Leo Famulari 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAlkguu4ACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPrA8gf+PqD9ELek0HBrvzuAraheRUam2B8Do62sN1XssRGxewpctgPpQzF26KiC WP74vIYdR6tOHftAFZ0X0LTdUYWqd5+aEV+ntlNXo5ilr2FLxEHFwWFmAIG5XWq4 nNh/InM3muUWyWQReQG+e896PJ0Q353yRC3zx+ft71lvTcAjlEelKNUgAtT4uIaM YccPz7BAVjFTu9GWEkpc+4K3ZHqGJ09OFsOiZl2h/sWdTneCK9wWQ0OwOhn6HTE+ un4M/ZfakCMVS0uDGjutCSoGyAHmEWFmHV08uFa2wohRxQHjxP2OaHM+cZMzEBDW WlFeHD2H44vULZ93DVPG1BtDhLz5Sw== =mmZm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--