Why do we have both ghostscript-gpl and ghostscript-gnu?

[Jose M Rodriguez]

Eivind Eklund wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:20:41AM +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
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>>David O'Brien wrote:
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>>>What's the difference between ghostscript-gpl and ghostscript-gnu?  A
>>>diff of their Makefile's doesn't make it any clearer.
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>>Versions.
>>It was after a change in licence from the originator.
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>According to the pkg-descr, these should both be the same (the GNU GPL).
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No. The originator licenses are different. go there for answers.

>>-gnu must remain at 7.x and unmaintained.
>>-gpl is the new 8.x source distribution.
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>Please add this information to pkg-descr.
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>In general, whenever somebody copy a port - MAKE SURE BOTH pkg-descr FILES
>DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENCES.  (This is a general plea - we've got maybe a hundred
>duplicates, and they're annoying.)
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>Eivind.
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Will work, time permiting, but the original repocopy/patch is not mine.

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  josemi