[gnu.misc.discuss] GHOSTSCRIPT

nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (09/20/89)

In article <572@tah386.manhattan.ks.us> terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull) writes:

   >> 1. What restrictions exist on using this software in a
   >>    commercial product?

   It falls under the GNU Public License which means you cannot sell it or 
   any work derived from it.  

Bzzzzzt!  Wrong!  You can sell it for as much as the market will bear.  You
just can't stop *other* people from selling the same thing for as much as
the market will bear.  And in fact, someone is doing exactly that.  They
charge a reasonable price for the code, and a "reasonable" price for the
source, in the $200 range.  This is perfectly reasonable given that you
cannot obtain source code for *many* programs regardless of the price.
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mike@bucasb.bu.edu (Michael Cohen) (09/27/89)

This is really not a bug report but a query.  I couldn't find another place to
discuss this.  Question, is there any current public domian implimentation
of Ghostscript for a HP laserjet or QMS printers.  If so where can I 
access it.  Finally are their any public domain fonts available for
Ghostscript.
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