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Ghostscript is currently owned by Artifex Software and maintained by Artifex Software employees and the worldwide user community. According to Artifex, as of version 9.03, the commercial version of Ghostscript can no longer be freely distributed for commercial purposes without purchasing a license, though the (A)GPL variant allows commercial ...
When Palm included MuPDF in webOS and complied with GPLv2 by releasing the changed source code of the library, [9] [10] Artifex claimed that the GPL version would be unsuitable for "commercial use" [11] as the complete, aggregated product (PDFviewer, WebOS) would have to be placed under GPL. [12] Artifex voluntarily dismissed the suit in 2011. [13]
Artifex sued Hancom in US District Court and made two claims. First, Hancom's use of Ghostscript was a violation of copyright; and second, Hancom's use of Ghostscript was a license violation. The court found the GPL license was an enforceable contract and Hancom was in breach of contract. [91] [92]
The GNU GPL provides that the Ghostscript user agrees to its terms, thus creating a contract, unless the user obtains a commercial license. Artifex alleged that Hancom did not obtain a commercial license to use Ghostscript, and claimed that its use of Ghostscript was licensed under the GNU GPL.
Recent versions of Ghostscript are not licensed under the AFPL. [ 3 ] Despite the name, the Free Software Foundation does not consider the AFPL a free software license , [ 1 ] neither the OSI consider it an open-source license , nor does it fall under the Copyfree Standard definition. [ 4 ]
Part of Ghostscript; converts a PostScript file to a PDF. SWFTools: GNU GPL: Yes pdf2swf component converts PDF to SWF. Scribus: GNU GPL: Yes Open source program for page layout. Xpdf: GNU GPL: Yes Yes Open source multi-backend library for viewing and manipulating PDF files. Bundled with a viewer with the same name for the X Window System. PDF ...
Nimbus Mono is a monospaced typeface created by URW Studio in 1984, [1] and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) ...
Virtual PDF printers for Microsoft Windows: Bullzip PDF Printer – there is a free version; CutePDF; DoPDF – this is a simplified version of NovaPDF; PDFCreator – a Ghostscript-based virtual printer for Microsoft Windows, with user interface for advanced options (security settings, combining multiple documents, etc.).