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GNU and Ghostscript part waysGNU and Ghostscript part waysPosted May 22, 2003 18:02 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)Parent article: GNU and Ghostscript part ways It seems to me like, while the GPL is a good fit for the free version of Ghostscript, the FSF and the GNU project never really were. It seems to me like the Ghostscript developers picked an odd method of releasing the Free versions, through an unrelated organization. These days, there are plenty of ways to distribute Free (and not-quite-Free) Software, so it doesn't really make sense to go through GNU. Even MySQL, whose model Mr. Kuhn points to as preferable, isn't a GNU project. It would greatly simplify everybody's experience if the project were more uniform, where you have a single set of version numbers for the versions, with all of the non-bug-fix, Artifex-code-only releases older than a year licensed under the GPL and the new released only license under the AFPL. This would make it much easier for users to decide what course of action is most suitable: getting the AFPL release (if the user doesn't want to use the missing freedom anyway), waiting for the current AFPL release to be GPL, getting the current GPL release, or adding functionality to the GPL release.
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