ports/67516: Update of print/gsfonts

Pedro F. Giffuni giffunip at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 5 00:40:53 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR ports/67516; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip at yahoo.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd at wanadoo.es,
	pav at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/67516: Update of print/gsfonts
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 02:30:58 +0200 (CEST)

 Hi;
 At first I thought this was a good idea, but looking at the commit, I have to
 object. The fonts in the port (that come with GNU ghostscript) were replaced by
 those used by AFPL ghostscript. Both versions, and their associated fonts have
 different license and according to the AFPL license we are not allowed to
 distribute them on the CD distribution.
 
 " ... the AFPL license, unlike the GNU license, prohibits all commercial
 distribution (unless you get a commercial license from Artifex Software Inc.,
 which is currently the only entity authorized by artofcode LLC to grant such
 licenses.)"
 This also means the update done on the GNU ghostcript port some time ago is
 wrong.
 
 The fontconfig stuff (replacing the p5 script) is probably OK and the old URLs
 should be updated too though..
 
 cheers,
 
     Pedro.
 
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