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From: "Daniel Pielmeier" <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to install ghhhostscript ?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:29:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6142e6140811170129vead140btb1479987b33e1eff@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <549510.74000.qm@web35806.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

2008/11/17 john stampe <jwstampe@yahoo.com>:
> The point here is that there is more than one version of ghostscript. I use
> ghostscript-esp (emerge -av ghostscript-esp). There is also ghostscript-gpl
> and ghostscript-gnu available in portage. This is due to licensing issues.
> Ghostscript is a commercial company, the Linux versions are relicensed.

There is no need for using ghostscript-esp anymore as GPL Ghostcript
8.57 and ESP Ghostscript 8.15.4 have been combined to GPL Ghostscript
8.60 in August 2007.
So there is only ghostscript-gpl and probably ghostscript-gnu.

-- 
Regards,
Daniel



  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-17  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-17  3:34 [gentoo-user] How to install ghhhostscript ? meino.cramer
2008-11-17  5:21 ` Rich Healey
2008-11-17  6:04   ` Andrey Vul
2008-11-17  6:25     ` Iain Buchanan
2008-11-17  8:40       ` john stampe
2008-11-17  9:29         ` Daniel Pielmeier [this message]
2008-11-17  9:57           ` john stampe
2008-11-18  2:24             ` meino.cramer
2008-11-18  6:35               ` Daniel Pielmeier

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