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Bug #480

Updated by Anonymous over 10 years ago

To
my knowledge, ghostscript does not contain non free files anymore.
Difference between _ghostscript_ from Arch repos and _ghostscript-libre_
is only one file:
"/usr/share/ghostscript/9.10/Resource/CMap/Identity-UTF16-H", for which I
also think is free. Header of this file says:

<pre>
% Copyright (C) 2003 Artifex Software. All rights reserved.
%
% This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or
% implied.
%
% This software is distributed under license and may not be copied,
% modified or distributed except as expressly authorized under the terms
% of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution.
...
</pre>

So I've checked the ghostscript *LICENSE* file and found this:

<pre>
The files in the Resource directory and any subdirectories thereof
are also part of GPL Ghostscript, with the explicit exception of
the files in the CMap subdirectory (except "Identity-UTF16-H",
which is part of GPL Ghostscript). The CMap files are copyright
Adobe Systems Incorporated and covered by a separate, Affero GPL
compatible license.
</pre>

From what I see here, _ghostscript_ is free, and there is no need for
_ghostscript-libre_.

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