adobe not-really-free license in ghostscript,

[Greg Troxel]

Files in Resources/CMap in ghostscript have the following non-free (but
not really unreasonable) license:

%%Copyright: -----------------------------------------------------------
%%Copyright: Copyright 1990-1998 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
%%Copyright: All Rights Reserved.
%%Copyright:
%%Copyright: Patents Pending
%%Copyright:
%%Copyright: NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property
%%Copyright: of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
%%Copyright:
%%Copyright: Permission is granted for redistribution of this file
%%Copyright: provided this copyright notice is maintained intact and
%%Copyright: that the contents of this file are not altered in any
%%Copyright: way from its original form.
%%Copyright:
%%Copyright: PostScript and Display PostScript are trademarks of
%%Copyright: Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in
%%Copyright: certain jurisdictions.
%%Copyright: -----------------------------------------------------------


Debian has already run into this, and put things like this in non-free.

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2009/09/24/adobe-data-freed/
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cmap/License

Some debian discussion:

http://osdir.com/ml/general/2009-10/msg07036.html



I propose to tag ghostscript as modified-bsd AND gnu-gpl-v3 given
adobe's relicensing, and not worry that we don't have a version of
ghostscript with the change yet.

Objections?

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 07:59:19AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Files in Resources/CMap in ghostscript have the following non-free (but
> not really unreasonable) license:

Let's ignore the Debian license nazis for a moment.
The files we are discussion are effectively constant lists for the
purpose of Ghostscript. AFAIK there is no need to modify them in place
either. I would say to just ignore this and be done.

Joerg