Hello Jonas, Am 23.02.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk>:
> [re-adding bugreport and setting same as reply-to] I did that intentionally but I’m also okay with having some smirky remarks publicly accessible. > Licensing issue is different - quoting from ghostpdl/pcl/LICENSE: > >> The set of truetype fonts in the urwfonts directory are necessary for >> the PCL/XL interpreter to function properly but they ARE NOT FREE >> SOFTWARE and are NOT distributed under the GNU GPL. They can instead >> be redistributed under the AFPL licence which bars commercial use. > > Seems (but need closer inspection) that the fonts are free except for > commercial use and therefore permitted in Debian non-free. So I may look forward for a gpcl package for unstable in a not all to far future? >> I’m tinkering with OS/400 in my spare time. Printing from there >> without embedded graphics always creates just PCL data. I’m currently >> developing an lpd-infilter which enables me to just throw PS or PCL >> data into the print queue on Linux and I’ll get a nice PDF generated >> and placed in the calling user’s home. At the moment it’s just in an >> „it works“ state but when I added proper error handling routines, I’ll >> release this as GPL OSS. > Sounds like a fun project :-) Yes, indeed! :wq! PoC
