From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Switching to Artifex Ghostscript Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 16:55:23 -0400 Message-ID: <20170520205523.GA27152@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="huq684BweRXVnRxX" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34762) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCBPQ-00024Q-F6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2017 16:55:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCBPN-0000bm-Bw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2017 16:55:32 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:37277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCBPL-0000a0-Dw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2017 16:55:29 -0400 Received: from localhost (c-73-165-108-70.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [73.165.108.70]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 19BA9241E3 for ; Sat, 20 May 2017 16:55:25 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline 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: guix-devel@gnu.org --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAlkgrTsACgkQJkb6MLrK fwgmyRAA0bgGvLZ7BBjmW6NxjTiBbHFIjC474h7W/ecUAVhQaRzEPE5u6EV8Abmn O7Tco6ftmJtI9EgHgYoFrTsS5CKDm8REbxsFj06d4c3DKyJXXlm6JxhpnehpAyuO l4/76hehD2KHLuDV7uLVx2jNJ4dbA25WckWEupOCiUM9ORvKfunksL1/qCXoxjxF k4edxpfDEHsjKg5dEZPos9abx2RatVZWPhwcZLrT7BUXBG86W77O4ZKK17TxluEB X/69I/Hg6BECPozi1W1d1wXr6gPxiHpBPFSKS03VndFCQNofgfQSvx5CDBy4gEB1 gs88qAD1gqqw15ak3PcfpDDxaWpmM0AYYia+fNJ9pzNQ8kK5HYa0/k9vM0ufgsYn ZCOZNSbTHD3fvnR5eOFQ+McIZSB/jjczZSVN0xRqvAncoSdOMspHfNj+Y+p3MKE4 wFeSDxbe8O9N4YFPMO4QVaAwSV5hlcw+9eIx3e4GvNPs/OEV9ZlpaEcs3WLtsyOf UyutkmXVo1+bttvtAmIIkA8BUJMu4E3Ezh8/DonWOUH+sjQvfIbrR10ZyQjWTcQt kukOkpWn9671xMtwkpDw5Ys4YsZ+hno8d3UFvCtncGMOJBV7QkajgiixT5XDx+tR ZdLbhh6ayAvLHhqW9dv0mBtBJbiXDyp9JUsC+AgsYT568PvW0A0= =NJj5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX--