[vox-tech] Debian help: font problems

[Ken Bloom]

On 2004.04.24 13:39, Ken Herron wrote:
> --On Saturday, April 24, 2004 12:37:18 PM -0700 Peter Jay Salzman  
> <p@dirac.org> wrote:
>> And bingo.  I had gs-afpl 8.14-2 installed and Mark had gs 7.07-1.
>> Didn't know what the difference was, but I made my packages conform
>> exactly to his, including removing some of my gs font packages.
> 
> Cool. Glad you got it working.
> 
> Ghostscript 7.07 is the latest GPL'ed version, while gs 8.14 is the  
> latest version released under the AFPL (Aladdin free public license).  
> AFPL has some restrictions affecting commercial use. The people who  
> maintain ghostscript follow this dual-license strategy so that they can  
> make a little money from their commercial users.

Ghostscript's GPL version is 8.01-2 in sid. I don't know whether it will  
have the same problems as gs-afpl 8.14, but you can bet it will propagate  
to testing relatively soon.

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