Re: gs 3.53 uploaded

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> 
> The general policy is that if it would be easy for a vendor to run
> afoul of the license of a program, it belongs in non-free. The CD-ROM
> producer gets to look at the licenses of programs in non-free
> individually, and decide what to place on their CD. Many Debian CD-ROM
> producers will distribute non-free programs.


Thanks for clearing it up, but I still don't quite know what it
means with aladdin ghostscript: as long as we (debian developers)
do our job propperly, there's no chance of any vendor to run into
troubles -- but, if just one developper overlooks that one file in
his megabyte package, then there is potential danger.

It seems to me that, in such cases, Peter L Deutsch didn't intend the
vendor to pay up, but it may be worth to ask him about it.

I still haven't sent Peter the letter about this (as I did promise).
Maybe it's better if someone with "autority" ask him (Bruce)?


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The copyright of aladdin ghostscript should by now be viewable with:

less +60g /usr/doc/copyright/gs


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