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

[Phil Blundell]

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 10:03, Richard Smedley wrote:
> 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

I don't really understand what you're saying here.  Perhaps we're
talking at cross purposes, but the text you quoted seems to pretty much
match what I thought.

Which is the particular bit that you were interpreting as meaning
something else?

> 
> 
> 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. 

p.