Re: Are all files produced by GPL Ghostscript copyrighted by 'Artifex Software, Inc.'?
Please fill a bug against ghostscript bts.
We take care of it. If fixed in recent release, we could depending of
the backport difficulty:
- tag wheezy ignore
- fix asap.
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Vaibhav Niku <vaibhav_niku@yahoo.com> wrote:
> One solution to the problem is to get the source code, delete the lines which insert the copyright notice (“modify the code”), compile the code, and use this. This is legal as the code is released under GPL and GPL allows modifications. (You could release your modifications too. This is how Debian makes ‘Iceweasel’ out of ‘Firefox’ -- just so that Debian users don't have to sign a EULA with Mozilla.)
>
> Still, Ghostscript (in its present state) should not be a part of Debian. Indeed, if signing a EULA is unacceptable, how much worse is having your code copyrighted by a third party!
>
> ~Vaibhav
>
> [Initially sent to debian-user; resent to this list after reading Chris Bannister’s response to d-u.]
>
>> pdf2ps, which is a frontend to gs, inserts a copyright
>> notice in all PS files it produces. I am using `GPL
>> Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10)'. Files look like this:
>>
>> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
>> ...
>> %%Creator: GPL Ghostscript 871 (pswrite)
>> ...
>> %%BeginProlog
>> % This copyright applies to everything between here and the
>> %%EndProlog:
>> % Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights
>> reserved.
>> %%BeginResource: procset GS_pswrite_2_0_1001 1.001 0
>> ...
>> %%EndProlog
>> ...
>> %%EOF
>
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