[gs-devel] approximate timeline for 8.5x?

[Ralph Giles]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:08:05PM -0100, lazer1 wrote:

> how much of the bugs are "new" in the sense that they 
> arent in earlier stable releases?

Generally they are new. Segfaults being the major category.

> what happens if a specific 3rd party contribution is say under AFPL?

Then you can use it with the latest AFPL release, or ask them
to dual license it so it can be used with GPL Ghostscript as well.

> (this is what puzzles me, eg will the GPL or GNU versions contain 
> less functionality?),

In the sense that they're the older version, they tend to contain
less functionality than the latest AFPL or commercial Ghostscript
release. But there are also GPL-only third party components that
cannot be used with AFPL Ghostscript, so it works both ways.

Cheers,
 -r