Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble?]

> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> That is fine if contrib includes no GPL code; if it does, I need to
> >> distribute the code for that portion only. Thus, if we want to
> >> maintain as broad a potential as possible (including non-source
> >> distributions) we need to encourage adoption of the BSD license for
> >> all source.
>
> > But Alladin Ghostscript is distributed in source form.
>
> But not *only* in source form. Aladdin make their living by selling
> Ghostscript to printer manufacturers and so forth. The printer makers
> are not about to ship out printers with copies of source code, nor
> even with notices explaining where to get the printer source code.
> If they obtained Ghostscript under GPL then they'd have to make not
> only the PS interpreter source available, but probably the entire
> firmware for the printer (it's a derived work, no?) and they are
> certainly not about to do that. So they pay Aladdin for the rights
> to use Ghostscript with a commercial license instead of GPL.

Oh, I didn't realize they had a binary-only distribution that was
_different_ from the source distribution.

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