I know some years ago Artifex software, the primary developers of
Ghostscript (at least back then), changed the licence from GPL to
AGPL.
I wonder if anybody else has had concerns about this; it seems to me
the AGPL cannot be considered a Free licence, because it impinges on
Freedom Zero (the freedom to use the software as you wish) in a way
that no other ostensibly-Free software licence does.
I wonder if the FSF doesn’t now agree with me? I see from the GNU
Ghostscript page <
https://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/>:
GNU Ghostscript is maintained by a team of GNU programmers. The
GNU version of the software is a distribution of the Ghostscript
project from Artifex Software.
And that page makes quite plain that GNU Ghostscript is licensed under
the GPL, with no mention of the AGPL.
The links on that page to the source code still seem to point to
ancient pre-AGPL versions. However, when I install the Debian package <
https://packages.debian.org/sid/ghostscript> and type “gs -h”, it
clearly identifies itself as “GPL Ghostscript”.
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