“This week Ghostscript, an open source postscript processor,
released version 8.60. Ghostscript releases are not normally
newsworthy since they are frequent and incremental, but this
release is special. Years ago, when the CUPS (Common Unix Printing
System) project was still in its infancy, they took a fork of
Ghostscript to produce ESP Ghostscript. During the 8.60 development
series, the original Ghostscript project decided to move to the GPL
away from their own AFPL License. This was the stroke of goodwill
required to get the unforking process underway and the developers
began to pore over the code…”
Unforked Ghostscript Released, Now Under the GPL, and Works with CUPS
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