[re-adding bugreport and setting same as reply-to] Quoting Schindler, Patrik (2017-02-23 16:43:01) > Am 23.02.2017 um 14:42 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>: >> Upstream has warned me that gspcl us unlikely to be possible to >> provide with Debian due to a core requirement of fonts not freely >> available. Might still be possible to build gs and gspcl together, >> ship gs in main and the gspcl-specific parts in contrib - with a >> separate source package for non-free fonts (if those are legal to >> distribute there at all). > > Sounds like a good way to cope with this. If distribution is not > legally possible, there is at least one package which just contains a > script which downloads the original tarball from the distribution > website and unpacks the contents to a certain destination directory. > Purging of the package deletes the directory also. Maybe ubuntu flash > player package and sun java? Licensing issue is different - quoting from ghostpdl/pcl/LICENSE: > The set of truetype fonts in the urwfonts directory are necessary for > the PCL/XL interpreter to function properly but they ARE NOT FREE > SOFTWARE and are NOT distributed under the GNU GPL. They can instead > be redistributed under the AFPL licence which bars commercial use. Seems (but need closer inspection) that the fonts are free except for commercial use and therefore permitted in Debian non-free. >> Just curious: What are your concrete needs for gspcl? > > I’m tinkering with OS/400 in my spare time. Printing from there > without embedded graphics always creates just PCL data. I’m currently > developing an lpd-infilter which enables me to just throw PS or PCL > data into the print queue on Linux and I’ll get a nice PDF generated > and placed in the calling user’s home. At the moment it’s just in an > „it works“ state but when I added proper error handling routines, I’ll > release this as GPL OSS. Sounds like a fun project :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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