Comment 6 for bug 97718
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| Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote Re: gs-esp eats all memory... and fails | #6 |
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In former times, the newest GhostScript version was only available under the AFPL license which does not allow commercial redistribution (What distros are doing). With every new major version the previous version was released under GPL as GPL GHostScript. ESP GhostScript is a fork of GPL GhostScript with all GhostScript built-in drivers listed on OpenPrinting, with the CUPS raster backend, and the X display driver modularized.
Due to the license distributions have used GPL or ESP GhostScript.
Currently, the newest GhostScript versions are directly published under the GPL and the ESP GhostScript project is discontinued. After moving the add-on drivers and the CUPS raster backend to ghostscript.com the distros will most probably switch to GPL GhostScript (for Ubuntu in Gutsy Gibbon).