Re: [Gimp-print-devel] packaging or: trying to break bogus MS patents

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 22:32:29 +0200
   From: Torsten Landschoff <to...@de...>

   I guess using the AFPL for gimp-print is out of question. OTOH you could 
   distribute the driver for ghostscript under a dual license so that the user
   can select between the AFPL and GPL for that driver. 

   Or even use the LGPL for gimp-print. That would probably suffice to allow
   linking to gs. Otherwise we will just have the gimp-print driver in the 
   gnu gs package and included in the gs-aladdin source but disabled by 
   default. A user could still compile a custom package with gimp-print for 
   local use.

There's a potential problem with that; we're investigating some code
by Raph Levien that's covered by a patent that allows free use with
GPL code.  So if we use that code (and it supposedly does
spectacularly well on the printers to which it's currently
applicable), we'd have a problem (or we'd need special dispensation
from Raph).

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