From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Switching to Artifex Ghostscript Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 13:39:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20170523173911.GE17127@jasmine> References: <20170520205523.GA27152@jasmine> <87k25b5h5d.fsf@fastmail.com> <87vaougxzy.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50385) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDDm8-0003xH-L0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 13:39:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDDm5-00041c-Hi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 13:39:16 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:46755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDDm5-00041X-Do for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 13:39:13 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87vaougxzy.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 03:06:41PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Marius Bakke writes: > > Leo Famulari writes: > >> 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. >=20 > Me too. In fact, I once tried to package Artifex Ghostscript, but > failed in the attempt to unbundle libraries. I'll try this in the next few days. If you still have your old attempt, I'd be happy to see it :) --pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAlkkc78ACgkQJkb6MLrK fwjMPA/+MdcQV8wsLZbJFuvNpEM584HYfXaYhCmggFz6A/5tuVEaOTsTHUZTHzwa ofoUkPjuqGZMPdlLegrbCX4u2u6h9RqGPcgp+tCoM0pdhxYNFFmlY57oB7GRPHbu e1FK6CQLM0jEYHpz/VVCtJ315ewPNuUyPQfVkoze83mJ0TcWqDtBwvho1QojCHnD aGLsP/V4rk2+SMJ1idikgWsSoeE6qG9WdtMeKTqddDSw12kkwnMAy7Eakv9bHMxM k2ErBRn8Sb3nIecSWG072W1AZnmNEUXmgN9Dwp3zeopFnvUvnLBflIOM6WU7YhA4 z0aVQ8nBWfwzZLQ48kH9w0ECZW8GG355K4cHVPpM59ZeGFXUffad0KNETC1vuCk/ ZdDOpId0tojWOnRMyMLIR7gr55AVmfB4z3MO9mzPTQGH+bUs0YHO59IWwhYVW5Ol hduP+BWA3jacCq1W6d2GNFccbW2XEc12gRkNP/Avb7LoJJY6atYEbjG1K+StX02Z XD+QKCYtQ9drkd3YHqvxmWMABzy4860z2pjxrZL3Q1mFYxP5H1RAeDnix1pbgr6r qKkIq7tN8ZxY7kFE+251g4NkqHjKu9qE5NI3LBvaLIwYU3NFbZm6lTptGD9tL9PT 44XkeWGQi0gqMB6OGuvJyweub8JR21QM4Qr3XnLpHIgTaLqqLm0= =RBvA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL--