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Check the license of GhostScript #1779

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
"As of version 9.03, Ghostscript can no longer be freely distributed by most 
users without acquiring a commercial license from Artifex. An exception is made 
for applications which are entirely licensed to the public under the AGPL, in 
which case Ghostscript is also available under the AGPL." - Wikipedia, backed 
up by:

http://artifex.com/page/licensing-information.html

http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html

Original issue reported on code.google.com by anto.geo...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2014 at 5:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by ritza...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2014 at 7:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2014 at 11:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This is not an issue for BigBlueButton, since we are not distributing 
ghostscript ourselves. We simply have users install the package from ubuntu. 
Our usage of ghostscript is that we simply run it as an executable, so there 
are no issues of license compatibility either.

Original comment by calvin.walton@kepstin.ca on 11 Aug 2014 at 4:24