Leading-edge ghostscript goes GPL

Ghostscript has long been developed under a two-license scheme: new work would appear in a non-free release, then be placed under the GPL one year later. No longer: Ghostscript hacker Raph Levien has announced that the current development version of Ghostscript is now GPL-licensed. Note that distributors tend to ship a third branch of Ghostscript based on the (older) GPL version, so it may be a little while before the leading-edge makes it into distributions. (Thanks to Kurt Pfeifle).

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