TeX Live 5, the end game
Sebastian Rahtz
sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:02:12 +0000 (GMT)
Arthur Ogawa writes:
> > Ghostscript will be on the CD. It will just be gs 5.50 instead of 6.0.
>
> This I do not understand. I thought I saw Sebastian post that TL5a and
> TL5b would not have GhostScript on it. As I understood his message, TUG
> would have the option of putting GS on the TL5 CD that TUG distributes
> (other packages were also mentioned, among them CMacTeX). Did I
> misinterpret his message?
yes. TeX Live 5 will have *Gnu* ghostscript, not the current, better,
Aladdin GS
> Also, I hope it is clear that GS of any sort on TeX Live means that
> Peter Deutch's licensing restrictions apply
not so. the license changes when the release goes from Aladdin to Gnu
Sebastian