Re: Aladdin Ghostscript

1995-10-28 Thread Bruce Perens
Gentlemen, I think we've established the parameters about how and where Aladdin Ghostscript fits in the Debian system :-) . Many Thanks Bruce Perens

Re: Aladdin Ghostscript

1995-10-27 Thread L. Peter Deutsch
> Kermit is commercial software, requiring payment to Columbia in order to > sell it. Any distribution that does include it without paying is > breaking the law. You mean, any distribution that involves a payment, right? If payment is only required in order to sell it, that implies that it can b

Re: Aladdin Ghostscript

1995-10-27 Thread Daniel Quinlan
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 24 17:40:44 1995 > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 95 16:38:42 -0500 > From: "L. Peter Deutsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CDROM license > > [...] > > As it happens, I have already been considering switching from the > Yggdrasil to the Debian Linux

Re: Aladdin Ghostscript license

1995-10-27 Thread Bruce Perens
Peter and Andrew, Please forgive me for not responding earlier regarding the Aladdin Ghostscript license. The only snag I see here is that Debian will be placed on a CD-ROM and sold for profit by various publishers (I'm one, FSF is one, there are probably a dozen others). It's not clear to me tha

Re: Aladdin Ghostscript license

1995-10-27 Thread L. Peter Deutsch
Sale for profit of a CD-ROM including a program governed by the Aladdin Free license is allowed as long as everything on the CD-ROM may be copied and redistributed without further fee for (at least) non-commercial purposes. I.e., as long as everything (both software and documents) on the CD-ROM is