From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Switching to Artifex Ghostscript Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 15:06:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87vaougxzy.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20170520205523.GA27152@jasmine> <87k25b5h5d.fsf@fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCQZQ-0001e7-WC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 09:06:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCQZN-0002Tb-RK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 09:06:52 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCQZN-0002TQ-Iv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 09:06:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k25b5h5d.fsf@fastmail.com> 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: Marius Bakke Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Marius Bakke writes: > 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. Me too. In fact, I once tried to package Artifex Ghostscript, but failed in the attempt to unbundle libraries. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net