ghostscript changing license from GPLv3+ to AGPLv3+

[Tom Callaway]

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On 02/22/2013 12:14 PM, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 11:48 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Is there some exception (like for the database with the
>> unspeakable name), or does this affect CUPS?  Will CUPS be
>> extended to allow downloading the Ghostscript source code?
> 
> Good question: CUPS is licensed as GPLv2, which is listed on the
> Fedora licensing page as not compatible with AGPLv3+.
> 
> The cups package has a requirement on ghostscript-cups, a
> sub-package of ghostscript.  This sub-package provides the CUPS
> filter for converting PostScript or PDF to CUPS Raster format.
> CUPS filters are separate executables which follow a particular
> interface (see the filter(7) man page) regarding stdin, stdout, and
> stderr.
> 
> Not being a linkage dependency, I wasn't expecting that to be
> affected by the Ghostscript license change to Affero GPL.  But
> perhaps it would be?

If it is not a linkage dependency, it should not be.

~tom

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