Re: [Fsfe-uk] GPL'ing old versions of code

[Richard Smedley]

Phil Blundell wrote:

> 
> The FSF does more or less exactly this with Ghostscript.

Are you sure?
from http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html


Obtaining GNU Ghostscript

GNU Ghostscript is a copyrighted work (artofcode LLC owns the
copyright); it is distributed under the GNU General Public License. You
can get the current version of GNU Ghostscript by Internet FTP
from 

       ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/gnu/ 

or 

       /afs/mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/gnu/ 

or from any of the GNU distribution sites; you can also get GNU
Ghostscript from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) on the Source Code
CD-ROM. 

The Ghostscript source code distribution requires a library written by
the Independent JPEG Group (IJG), the zlib compression library, and
optionally the libpng image format library. These libraries do
NOT fall under the GNU License; each comes with its own license, all of
which are more permissive than and compatible with the GPL. For more
information, please see the README files in the
respective library sources. The executable versions of Ghostscript are
based in part on the work of these groups. 








- Richard

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