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Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:58:06 -0500
From:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Updated: ghostscript-5.50-2
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:46:52PM +0100, Jerry van Dijk wrote:
> >Kevin Wright writes:
> >
> > > I have uploaded ghostscript-5.50-2 to cygwin/contrib.
> >
> >Why are you using this old version ?
> >
> >To get a usable gs on NT, you need at least GSview 3.6, which requires gs 6
> >as a minimum.
> 
> It was not clear that the AFPL would allow distribution:
> 
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/New-user.htm#Find_Ghostscript
 
IANAL, but it seems that the AFPL Ghostscript can be distributed as part
of the free (beer) "net" release, but Red Hat cannot include it in its
commercial GNUpro distribution.

--Chuck

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