License change for ghostscript

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 07/31/2009 04:19 PM, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 22:47 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> This might cause problems for a bunch of packages.
>>
>> $ repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires --alldeps ghostscript ghostscript-
>> gtk --qf="%{NAME}: %{LICENSE}" | grep -vP '\bGPL(v3|\S*\+)' | sort
>
> Wouldn't it be packages using the libraries that might pose problems?
>
> $ repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires --alldeps
> 'libgs.so.8()(64bit)' 'libijs-0.35.so()(64bit)' --qf="%{NAME}:
> %{LICENSE}"
> foomatic: GPLv2+
> ghostscript-devel: GPLv2 and Redistributable, no modification permitted
> libspectre: GPLv2+
> ImageMagick: ImageMagick
> ghostscript: GPLv2 and Redistributable, no modification permitted
> ghostscript-gtk: GPLv2 and Redistributable, no modification permitted
> ghostscript-devel: GPLv2 and Redistributable, no modification permitted
> gutenprint: GPLv2+
>
> Other packages would be invoking the executable, which (AIUI) is not
> considered "based on" ghostscript.
>
> The ImageMagick license seems to be compatible with GPLv3.

I'm really only concerned about these library linking cases, which all 
seem to be GPLv3 compatible.

I think it is a reasonable argument that applications which call out to 
ghostscript are well separated, thus, can be sanely treated as two 
separate programs.

~spot