Re: ghostscript confusion

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 11:42:55AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> The basic issue is that ghostscript used to be GPL, and upstream
> changed the license to AGPL.   People were upset by that, so the last
> GPL version remains in pkgsrc, and the ghostscript meta-package defaults
> to it.

I don't think anything changed. There are a lot of applications where
the AGPL version has no advantage at all. AGPL is horrible and with good
reason not a default license.

Joerg