Re: changing the default ghostscript type

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> writes:

> On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 12:05:54 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> I have added a cups option to ghostscript-agpl.  I would appreciate it
>> if anybody who was using ghostscript-gpl only because of missing cups
>> support would try ghostscript-agpl with the cups option.
>
> I only just had time. I gave it a quick try, and it seemed to work ok.
> (I wedged stuff into my installed system, so it was not a perfect
> from-scratch test, but I think it's ok).

Thanks - that's encouraging.

> I did notice a weird build error (that unfortunately disappeared from my
> scrollback) that disappeared when I tried it again. Maybe
> MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=no is needed.

Interesting, but -j is like that!

> Aside: A nasty little detail I noticed:
>
>     ../pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-agpl$ gs
>     GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
>     Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>     This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
>     GS>
>
> It announces itself as GPL. Only when you carefully read the LICENSE
> file inside the distfiles, where it is still consistently called "GPL
> Ghostscript", it turns out (near the end) that the license is actually
> the "GNU Affero General Public License". I would call this deceptive and
> disingenuous on the part of Affero, really... I noticed it only when
> looking at the diff between the two versions.

Maybe you could file a bug upstream...

I am wondering if this was because there was "GPL Ghostscript" and
"Proprietary Ghostscript" as package names, and now the GPL version is
AGPL3 intead of GPL3, but the product name is the same.