Ghostscript Commercial License Price
| Latest version | 9 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Aladdin Enterprises |
| Published | September 18, 2000 |
| SPDX identifier | Aladdin |
| Debian FSG compatible | No |
| No[1] | |
| No | |
| GPL compatible | No |
Commercial Licensing. Artifex is the exclusive commercial licensing agent for Ghostscript. There is no 'public domain' version of Ghostscript. The kind of distribution or use you plan to make of Ghostscript will determine whether you need a commercial license from Artifex. If you plan to distribute Ghostscript in one of your products or make. May 14, 2019 Ghostscript Commercial License; How much does it cost to distribute ghostscript commercially? To use ghostscript in a commercial settings. You need to have a license. May 25, 2017 - Open source (sometimes called “copyleft”) licenses typically provide that. To purchase the commercial (paid) license for Ghostscript before. Ultimately, all of this naming, forking of the software source code, and license wrangling is important to note as two versions emerged from the fray — Ghostscript, which is copyrighted software owned by Artifex Software Inc. And licensed for commercial use, and GNU Ghostscript, maintained by the GNU Project and given a GPL release. Offers commercial licenses to Ghostscript as well as for the public a conditional open source license called the GNU General Public License (“GNU GPL”). At ¶¶ 1, 17.) For those seeking to commercially distribute Ghostscript or any product that incorporates it, Plaintiff will. We recommend that all commercial entities that wish to distribute Ghostscript or MuPDF or make them available to SaaS or ASP customers, enter into the Artifex Commercial License agreement. This frees you from having to conform to the requirements and restrictions of the GNU AGPL licenses, it also provides you with additional benefits and rights.
The Aladdin Free Public License, abbreviated AFPL, is a license written by L. Peter Deutsch for his GhostscriptPostScript language interpreter.
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The license was derived from the GNU General Public License, but differs on two key points:
- The source code must be included with any software distribution.
- The software may not be sold, including any fees involved with distribution.
Deutsch chose to include a commercial restriction in the AFPL based on his observation of people including Ghostscript in commercial products without full license compliance.[2] 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] The AFPL can be considered a source-available license.
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- ^ ab'Licenses - Free Software Foundation'. Archived from the original on January 13, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
- ^Stig Hackvän (October 1998). 'L. Peter Deutsch in conversation with Stig Hackvän'. Dr Dobb's Journal. CMP Media LLC. Archived from the original(CD-ROM) on October 13, 2004. Retrieved July 21, 2007.
As you recall, I promised Stallman that I would continue to distribute Ghostscript with the GNU license. But I saw a number of companies bundling Ghostscript with commercial products while just barely complying with the letter of the GNU license, so I decided that I did not want to make Ghostscript as available for commercial distribution as it would be with the GNU license.
- ^'Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview'. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2007.
- ^Copyfree Standard Definition
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