Le mercredi, 7 janvier 2015, 12.17:43 Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > > This is fixed in upstream's 9.14. I'll see with the release team if > > we can backport this into Jessie. > > Great. But what about its licensing? I guess upstream treat it as > AGPL, so we may risk disagreeing with them if we choose to ignore that > - e.g. by treating it as too small to be copyright-protected. Best is to ask I guess. Let's try to see what the upstream author of the patch says. Hereby CC'ing him. Chris: We (Debian) want to include your patch for the Ghostscript bug 695031 "don't assume we can read a font file", but we are wondering about its licensing situation. Debian is shipping ghostscript 9.06, licensed under GPL-3, but you included this patch in ghostscript 9.14, which is licensed under AGPL. We have three options: a) consider your patch as too small to be copyright-protected. This would allow us to include is in GPL'd ghostscript 9.06. It'd be nice to have your confirmation on this though. b) get your patch also GPL-licensed, allowing us to include it in GPL'd ghostscript 9.06. It'd be mandatory to have an explicit statement from you (as author of the patch) on that. c) None of the above, leaving the bug open for Debian Jessie, thereby leaving our users with a bug in our next stable release. Needless to say we'd prefer any of the two above solutions. Cheers, and thanks in advance, Didier Raboud, aka OdyX
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