Re: Use GhostScript API instead of forking (issue 548030043 by address@hidden)

[jonas . hahnfeld]

On 2020/05/02 10:12:45, hanwenn wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 12:09 PM <mailto:address@hidden>
wrote:
> 
> > > This version of LilyPond has been compiled and linked with a
version
> > > of Ghostscript licensed under the AGPL.
> >
> > Please re-read point 2 above. Old Ghostscript versions are not AGPL
and
> > other implementations may not be either.
> 
> it's easy to discover if GS is AGPL or not (assuming that the command
> line binary is the same as the API we're linking):
> 
> $ gs
> GPL Ghostscript 9.27 (2019-04-04)
> Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO
WARRANTY:
> see the file COPYING for details.

That's a bold claim that may often hold, but not always. Feel free to do
this change after this one landed, but I'm certainly not going to give
imperfect legal advice.

> (BTW, I've been unable to find the GS API on fedora 31 :-/ )

https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/libgs-devel/ ?

https://codereview.appspot.com/548030043/