Bug#855219: ghostscript: Please add gspcl
Hello Jonas,
Am 23.02.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>:
> [re-adding bugreport and setting same as reply-to]
I did that intentionally but I’m also okay with having some smirky remarks publicly accessible.
> Licensing issue is different - quoting from ghostpdl/pcl/LICENSE:
>
>> The set of truetype fonts in the urwfonts directory are necessary for
>> the PCL/XL interpreter to function properly but they ARE NOT FREE
>> SOFTWARE and are NOT distributed under the GNU GPL. They can instead
>> be redistributed under the AFPL licence which bars commercial use.
>
> Seems (but need closer inspection) that the fonts are free except for
> commercial use and therefore permitted in Debian non-free.
So I may look forward for a gpcl package for unstable in a not all to far future?
>> I’m tinkering with OS/400 in my spare time. Printing from there
>> without embedded graphics always creates just PCL data. I’m currently
>> developing an lpd-infilter which enables me to just throw PS or PCL
>> data into the print queue on Linux and I’ll get a nice PDF generated
>> and placed in the calling user’s home. At the moment it’s just in an
>> „it works“ state but when I added proper error handling routines, I’ll
>> release this as GPL OSS.
> Sounds like a fun project :-)
Yes, indeed!
:wq! PoC
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