[gs-devel] Re: GNU Ghostscript 7.06 release

[Ralph Giles]

On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 03:40 pm, Brett Smith wrote:

> Combing through it again, I found the following:
>
>   * Files in examples/, lib/, and toolbin/ had the old Artifex license
>     notice (mea culpa on this one -- should've caught them the first 
> time),
>     and there were a couple of instances in the documentation where 
> "Linux"
>     should've read "GNU/Linux".  I will have patches for those to you 
> this
>     afternoon.
>
>   * A couple of files in lib/ have licenses that I'm pretty sure are
>     GPL-compatible, but I'm not completely certain about.  I have 
> asked the
>     FSF's licensing guru for an answer on this one, and he should have 
> an
>     answer to me later today.  I expect it will be positive.
>
>   * A number of files in lib/ lack copyright information.  Most of 
> them are
>     relatively trivial, however; the biggest is around 6k, and most are
>     under 2k.  I have a question out asking at what point we would 
> like to
>     see copyright information.
>
>   * lib/prfont.ps has many copyright notices, and no licensing 
> information.
>     Ordinarily, I would tack on the standard GPL header, but the 
> original
>     copyright holder is not Artifex, Aladdin, or any other name I
>     immediately recognize.  As such, it's not clear how the file was
>     originally licensed and got into GhostScript.  Please look into 
> this.
>
>   * lib/printafm.ps has an ambiguous copyright.  It states that the
>     original version of the file was placed in the public domain, but 
> does
>     not state whether or not that is the case for this modified 
> version.
>     If it is copyrighted, there is no license for it, either.  Please 
> look
>     into this.
>
> I'll have answers and patches to you this afternoon.

That's quite a list. I'm not going to take these for 7.06; I've already 
done most of the final release. It's a pity no one found these while we 
were waiting on the security fix. :-/

   -r