[gs-devel] possible abuse of ghostscript's gpl license

[Scott Gifford]

"Federico POLONI" <f.poloni at sns.it> writes:

> I found on the web this word-to-pdf converter:
> pdf995
> http://www.pdf995.com/
> 
> It "contains a partial version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05"
> (quoting from the readme file), but it is not licensed as
> GPL. I think it may be illegal, so I have decided to mail
> this list to warn you. Please make their heads roll...

Their FAQ says:

  http://www.pdf995.com/faq.html 

    Source

    PDF995 refers to an unmodified version of GNU Ghostscript and also
    supports other Postscript-to-PDF converters. GNU Ghostscript is
    distributed under the GNU General Public License. You may obtain
    the source code for GNU Ghostscript here
    [http://www.signature995.com/gs/gs705src.zip] 

Assuming that's true, they're not doing anything they shouldn't be.

----ScottG.