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The end of the line for GNU Ghostscript

The end of the line for GNU Ghostscript

Posted May 20, 2003 17:38 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: The end of the line for GNU Ghostscript by mmarkov
Parent article: The end of the line for GNU Ghostscript

From the annoucment: "because of disagreements over censorship of the AFPL releases and our development model"

The company (Aladin?) that makes Ghostscript releases the product first under a non-Free license and then a while later under the GNU GPL. The company makes it's money off the non-Free version.

*Maybe* the company wanted to stick an ad for the non-Free version into the Free version? This advertisement would go against the goals of the GNU project. It would be Free Software but it would be encouraging users to use non-Free software.

Ciaran O'Riordan


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