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

KATO Tsuguru tkato432 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 30 04:26:36 PST 2004


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:20:41 +0100
Jose M Rodriguez <josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es> wrote:

> At last here, the only problem I found is with cups-pstoraster, with 
> really need the -gnu thing installed.

There are some other issues. Ability of handling east-asian
charactors is degraded from 7.x to 8.x.

In other words, east-asian FreeBSD user won't be able to
use CUPS if cups-pstoraster port will be simply changed to
8.x codebase.


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